Tassie - West Side

Dave took this beautiful shot - just near our free camping spot on our first night in Tassie
we camped next to the Abattoir in Birnie...

It was an oceanside spot that we scored and luckily the bleating of the lambs didn't keep us awake.
So the following pic is me standing in front of what we are led to believe, Cradle Mountain.


Nice huh. What you don't see (apart from Cradle Mountain) is the bridal party making its muddy wet way to a special spot to the wedding ceremony. No buildings that way - so open air water wedding....

Whaddya expect in tassie huh!


Another neat free-camping spot - this time on top of a big dam wall. We thought Tassie was awesome for us Caravanners (not you Cradle Mountain - your $45 a night fees suck)

Going to Tassie

We've taken the big boat to Tasmania - the "Spirit of Tasmania 3"
apart from waiting, for what seemed like hours, we finally got to be one of the last vehicles on the boat... we were so glad we got there early sheesh...
We're leaving Melbourne behind..

We were advised by some very wise friends that we should book a room, rather than try to ride out the journey.... SO GLAD WE DID... We had a little tiny berth with a little bathroom - it was brilliant.
After tea we watched a movie in the little cinema and then back to our room and to bed... Right about the same time I was having my shower , we hit open water....

Slept really well and woke up when we were pulling into Devonport!

Breakfast at Macca's - all is right with the world.

Check out the tyres on this ute that was in the queue in front of us. Stocking up?

Melbourne again again...

Another trip to Melbourne - we caught up with my good friend Michelle and Dave went and saw what was to be Tiger Woods last game of golf for a while (Australian Masters)


We had a some great weather and really enjoyed scootering around (I went out all day by myself - woohoo superstar) The Yarra looked particularly inviting and so we took a ride on a steamboat, it was a peaceful little trip and made all the more interesting by the onboard Dog doing laps

CRAZY MIGRATING BIRDS...
on our way out of SA we literally saw 100's of these flocks of birds... I think they might have been on their way to the Coorong.


At this fabulous free camping lakeside spot near Colac.... we discovered where the birds were spending their nights!

SA and the adventures of Hop-a-long Mum

On the ferry with the Van crossing the Murray heading to Victor Harbour.
We came to visit our maties Neil, Elise-5 and Coco (above) before their lil Baby arrives.

Neil made us pizza's one night in the big pizza oven in their backyard (how cool is that?)
and the boys took off for a walk to discuss the surf.

After spending some time with them we headed North up to Adelaide with the plan of seeing Mum & Dad for a couple of days... we met up with them in Gawler and on day two Mum broke her leg coming out of their van. (no, it wasn't moving at the time)

The adventures we had...
and the people we met....

Mum was amazingly chilled out about it all... just another day in the van :)
She got spoilt (rightly so)

We took a trip to the Adelaide Botanical Gardens - was quite lovely.

My highlight of the trip was taking My Mum for a spin on the back of my scooter into town.....

before she broke her leg, that is.

From Victoria to SA - via the Grampians

Yep - those are my feet somewhere up in the Grampians... if these feet didn't need a rest, they would've made it to see the following two waterfalls!



My husband is just hilarious...

This scary big Koala freaked me out a little, I rolled the window up and told Dave to "drive faster!" creepy...

On our way out of Victoria we stocked up with groceries, only to find 2 hours down the road that we had to chuck out all fruit n veg. So we turned back to this golf course right on the border and while I made copious amounts of soup - Dave played Golf.


Some joy was had hitting balls from VIC to SA - trust me.

After the Snow....

Long time - no update

my bad.


So we left the ski fields behind and headed down to the coast to spend some time near the coast. A week spent around Rosebud, Dromana and Sorrento.. beautiful

We found a great (cheap as) camping spot that backed onto the beach below... with all these cute little beach huts! So sweet.

I holidayed here with my Mum n Dad when I was 21/22 and really enjoyed this area - so it was nice to revisit.
Arthur's Seat - came here with Mum n Dad.

From here we decided to head to South Australia via some of the more rural parts of Victoria, namely Ballarat and Daylesford..

At Ballarat we free camped in the bush with our newly purchased Generator... kept us snugly warm on the freezing cold nights.... can you believe it was so much colder than it ever was up at Falls Creek!
Yummy Tea camping out near Ballarat


We did a day trip to Sovereign hill and had a look around the Gold museum




and had to go to Daylesford to the markets there and the famous Spa - we spent a gorgeous afternoon lazing in the Hot spring pool........... mmm so blissful!