Working In Melbourne

Saturday 22nd April Great Ocean Road

Booked a 2 day trip through http://www.ecoplatypustours.com/ to visit the Great Ocean Rd and the Grampians National park

Early start, waiting for mini-bus at 6.30am. Definitely interesting the characters that you see wandering home at that time in the morning. Only 8 people on the tour, 7 girls (German, Japanese, Italian & English) and one lad from Leeds. I believe that over the 2 days we travelled 600km. (http://www.greatoceanrd.org.au/)

Slightly disappointed that unable to visit Bell Beach due to the recent Rip Curl Pro surfing competition. However some terrific views along the Coastal road. Visited a rain forest and also an area where we went wild koala hunting, how cool was that! As it was lunchtime and they’d been snacking all morning they were very lazy but managed to get a couple of photos….and avoided being wee’d on! lol
Then travelled further down the coast to the Twelve Apostles, (see highlights page on above website) of which there are now only eight, the others having collapsed into the sea over time. Several of us decided to take up the helicopter flight to see them from the sky as it wasn’t that expensive, it was well worth the money.

We then went and visited some of the bays we’d seen from the sky by bus. As usual took lots of photos! After this we travelled on to “Halls Gap” in the Grampians to stay at a back packers lodge, arrived at about 7pm (http://www.visithallsgap.com.au/). Just like someones house..well it was but converted for backpackers. Shared a dorm with the two Italian girls. $22 for the night plus $8 for evening meal. After dinner we all went out..not to go partying or drinking, but to go Kangaroo hunting!! Our guide advised us that if we went to any of the grassed areas in the town and looked near the street lights we would find Kangaroos just wandering around. We could get up really close to them, closer than you would in a zoo and they never minded the flashed going off from the cameras. There was also a paddock next to our accommodation where wild deer seemed to be just chilling out. As these were a lot more nervous we didn’t take photos.

posted by Jules @ 10:50 pm