We didn’t show you yesterday the view from our AirBnB. Not too shabby. Also had this visitor who insisted upon being fed. He is a King Parrot. Across the road we had more koala spotting with this one looking totally wiped out. Our koala count is now 21. In the many years when we use … More Continuation of The Great Ocean Road – 18th December 2018

If there was going to be one day we really wanted beautiful it was today. Alas, we awoke to a heavy wet mist which we knew was going to limit our view as we drove along The Great Ocean Road. The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage listed 243-kilometre stretch of road along … More The Great Ocean Road – 17th December 2018

Today we covered 550k leaving the state of South Australia to Portland in the state of Victoria. There is a lot more direct way which is about 680k but we want to go along the coastal road which is going to double the distance. We are going to take three days in total to do … More Adelaide to Portland, Victoria – 16th December 2018

Final day in Adelaide in what has been a very pleasant and rebonding stay. It is not often that we are able to spend a good amount of time with family members and catch up with all their news. Alistair who is the youngest of the two boys just completed his final year at High … More The Rowing Rowes – 15th December 2018

Have been winding down a bit the last few days and not putting a lot of touring on our agenda as we are coming up to a three day drive to Melbourne plus all the hurly burly of Christmas. We went into Adelaide Central markets with Leone and met up with David for a bite … More Adelaide Central Markets – 14th December 2018

Awoke to some very wild windy weather which was going to relieve a number of trees of their limbs. Our plan for today is to drive back up to family friends, Barry and Jeanette’s in the Barossa Valley who we had caught up with last Friday but this time take a tour of the Barossa … More Barossa Valley – 13th December 2018

Not a lot to share today. Weather is still scorching, as predicted to be 35c again today so feel like you are walking around in a furnace. Our plan was to get in a bit of exercise today which was achieved by driving down to the Burnside public swimming pool. The pools setting was in … More A Bit of Exercise – 12th December 2018

Our plan today was to head down the south east coast from Adelaide to check out the countryside. A few rellies and friends provided some ideas on what to see and do, so took off about 10.00am to check it out. Here is a map of our approximate route which took us about six hours. … More Drive in the Country – 11th December 2018

Took Alistair, our 18 year old nephew, to the airport as he was off on his first big adventure of his life without mum and dad. He was to join up with his brother who was coming up from Canberra, to see the Wu-Tang Clan at the Sydney Opera House. As you can imagine, we … More Adelaide CBD, Cricket, Wu-Tang Concert Sydney – 10th December 2018

Bit of house work required today on the old bodies. We both needed haircuts and a bit of other panel beating so headed down to the Mitcham Square local shopping centre. Afterwards we were joined by Leonie and David for a coffee at the local coffee shop where they were constantly involved in discussions with … More Catching up with More Friends – 8th and 9th December 2018