G'day peeps. And how be all of you? All well and good I hope. The weather here has been absolutely gorgeous for the last couple of days and the Great Ocean Road is proving a good trip (for the second and a half time around). We've had more time this time though, and a car, which makes all the difference. Phil, I didn't get chance to stop in at Warrnambool as Andy and Tina weren't too keen on the idea. Sorry about that.

Been doing loads of sight seeing too. Stopping off at random beaches for a dip in the freezing sea, a tree top walk (47m up in the canopy), saw the twelve apostles again, and am currently in the Grampians which are gorgeous. We went to Mackenzie Waterfall, The Balconies (rock formation with a stunning view) and the aboriginal museumy type thing today. Staying in an eco friendly hostel tonight. Everything is recycled including the shower water (only to flush the toilets though) and the place is lovely. If we had the car for longer I'd push to stay here for a bit longer but we have to be in Adelaide for tomorrow night.

Eating our dinner tonight we were invaded by Kookabarra's (recognised them off the cricket bats) and what I think were cockatoos. Walking back to the car after a fine meal Andy noticed two Kangaroos just munching grass in the park. The whole place is like a safari. Loads of insects too. Haha, playing scabble this evening (it's a quiet place) and two midges landed on the board. They looked to be mating and had aptly chosen the 'e' of the word vet to get down to it on. Caused a titer amongst. I won at scrabble by the way, but does the word 'mutings' exist?

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Loads of comments. Haha, cheers guys. I think out of all 18 of the new comments, only four different ones existed. The trick is to just type it, click comment and then leave it till the comment window disappears. If you want to see if it's worked, wait a bit and then refresh the revolicktion page. Aaaaaaaah, genius.

As for me I'm doing a true Birt Packing thing tonight. I'm going to the Neighbours night where I shall meet no less than, Harold Bishop, Toadie and special guest Alf from Home and Away. It'll be Toadie's first night back following a ban (for wooing all the English 'ladies') so he should be on good form. How funny will that be? We were also supposed to be touring the set this afternoon but alas, they'd doubled booked us. No probs though as that means we just go tomorrow and get it for half price. Haha! The only slight problem is that Andy and I need to hire a car, sharpish, to drive to Adelaide in. That was tomorrow's job but now today will have to be spent shopping around for one. Best bet is to go a for a relocation vehicle (cheaper) but whether we'll find one..? who knows?

Checked out the casino last night as it's apparently the largest in Oz. Managed to get away with spending virtually bugger all as we found the poker tables. Haha, you can learn to play for free so we did that for about 2 hours. Just like Late Night Poker except no cash involved. Very much fun.

So the trip to Adelaide should be commencing on Wednesday. Tina from the hostel has also expressed an interest so she may or may not be coming with us.

How are you all doing at home? Hope you're all top and Dandy and fine. Incidentally, could someone please send me Pratt's e-mail address as I need to speak to the young man, if he even has an address these days. And the leg's address wouldn't go astray either.

Jess got off to Finland fine yesterday I believe. Spoke to her in the morning but haven't heard whether or not she got there alright. I'm assuming she did. Right then, sorry for the lengthy post of not much value but I haven't writte for a while. anywho, see y'all anon.

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Morning morning. Well the great ocean road (once again) proved to be a bit of a pain the arse. Without having a car it's almost impossible to do the activities surrounding the sleepy towns along it. As a result at Apollo Bay it was decided that Melbourne should be returned to. So here I am. Back in Melbourne for Australia Day!!!!!!!! Wooo. And what is Australia Day? A big party basically for when this marvellous country was founded. The Big Day Out (loads of bands playing a festivally type thingamy jigamer) is on and loads of processions etc through town. The big day out costs a fair whack though so I'm off to watcha skating competition instead (it's free and should be a good laugh). Watched 21 grams last night. Excellent film but not the most cheery I've ever seen. Andy's getting to Melb on the 31st (ish) and it'll be good to see the WBP (whinging bloody pome) again. Right. I'm off to prepare for some skating madness.

Hello dere everyone. Just a really quick message as my time's about to expire. Got to Melbourne okay and stayed in the nunnery. Great little hostel and had a good laugh there. Katy has now flown the antipodean nest and should be back in blighty by now. Probably shivering and being generally miserable. Ffi and I are now doing a whacky races effort across the South to hook up with Laura and the Irish lads but progress is slow. Had one of those days yesterday but today is all good. Bugger all in Torquay though and I can't really be arsed to go surfing (beach is miles away). Moving on to Apollo Bay tomorrow though and eventually getting to Adelaide, then to Perth. Perth will probably involve a purchase of a car to then attack the Western Coast. Following that I can finally get involveed int he volunteering I want to do. Oh yeah, and visa extension is required. Whther or not I'll get it is unknown but it should be okay. No news on the Masters yet but fingers crossed. Mail me, and I'll see you all later. Oh yeah, The Hartless one (Claire) and her botfriend should be in Adelaide on the 30th. Mad as. And Moony might also be out in a little while (March time) in Perth. Andy's still stuck in Sydney so god knows when I'll see him again. Right then, sees ya.