David and Eleanor sharing with family and friends.
Back on the road today heading to Port Fairy.
We stopped at the Gibson Steps and climbed down to the yellow sands to enjoy the crashing rollers and see our first ‘apostles’. David was very impressed with the lovely waves. Later we discovered that these stacks are Gog and Magog.
Heading out of Melbourne after a terrorist attack (luckily we were seeing Annie); getting into a traffic jam on the M1, we are now hoping re-find Australia on the Great Ocean Road.
We were very excited to meet up with David’s cousin Annie and her daughter Mika. The last time we saw Annie was 20 years ago! It was wonderful to see her again and meet Mika for the first time.
So here we staying on the south bank of the Yarra river, surrounded by art centres and bars and restaurants.
This evening we walked at the base of Uluru – it was stormy and raining heavily to begin with. This is rare here where there is only 30cm of rain a year.
This morning we did the Valley of the Winds walk – an easy 7km round walk at Kata Tjuta.
Continue reading “Kata Tjuta – domes and valleys”
Back to red earth and feathery olive green trees – and a very impressive monolith.
On our last day here on the reef, we were lucky enough to have a clear calm snorkel. Continue reading “Meeting the turtles”
We are now on Lizard island near the Great Barrier Reef for David’s birthday.
Continue reading “Birthday diving”
The fruit on this farm is very alien to our apples and pears. The jack fruit is huge green and knobbly and grows straight out of the trunk!
