Lamington National Park Hike!

I went on a roughly 15k hike at Lamington National Park with a group of people from "In Shape Outdoors" We battled many many leeches, and some ticks as well, but we all survived - and didnt get lost this time!!















finished off with a salad sandwich from the cafe - delicious!!! I was starving! (had to remove the cucumber though - not THAT hungry! haha!!)

Melbourne!!! Day 3 - Great Ocean Road Tour

breakfast was a couple of croissants from "Pie Face" which we had purchased the night before.  I tried to heat them up by snuggling them close to the boiling kettle in our hotel room. fail. Still, yummy enough croissants! We were being picked up by Wild Life Tours Australia for a one day tour of the Great Ocean Road!


first stop was the famous Bells Beach






I saw my first ever "wild" Koala. In that we saw Koalas that were in trees, not in zoos!





We had lunch (included in the tour) at Apollo Bay. Hanet had the Roast Chicken, Chips and I ate her salad :-)




I had a Vegie Burger.


We had about half an hour after lunch to have a wander around. We found ourselves at this ice cream shop :-)






It was delicious icecream! Janet had honeycomb, I had Dulce de Leche Gelato. mmmmmmmmm



We ate our ice cream whilst walking out to see the view of Apollo Bay.Then it was back onto our little bus.




next stop was Maits Rest Rainforest Walk


Then on to the twelve apostles.....


......Loch Ard Gorge


........London Bridge. All amazing sights to see (and a million more of my photos can be found here!!




on the way back to the city, we stopped at the Noodle Canteen at Colac for dinner

lemongrass & chilli vegie noodles



sweet chilli chicken noodles

Out & About - Roma St Parklands

I was meeting for lunch at Roma St Parklands in the city one weekend (food post to follow!), so I got there early for a wander around.....

Stop & Smell the Roses!

On our way home from breakfast we walked past this lovely rose bush peeping over someones fence.

They were a bit high to actually smell the roses, but they were just right for a photo :-)

Day at the Beach

It was such a nice day that we decided to drive down the coast. We began at Southport, where we had a walk, then we drove to Nobby Beach, where we had another walk, and a climb up some steep stairs, but we couldn't see anywhere close to buy some lunch for a picnic, so we drove a bit further to Burleigh, but I couldn't find anywehere to park the car, so we drove a bit further and ended up at Palm Beach, where there was heaps of parking and shops nearby. Perfect!!

We bought our lunch from this fish & chip shop. See whats next door???

Janet got the Fish & Chips

I had a vegie burger. A huge vegie burger. A delicious vegie burger.

We sat in a park right by the beach with only the seagulls for company. Perfect! And then, because I have been going on about wanting ice cream for weeks, we walked back to the shop and visited Cold Rock. Janet had double chocolate with cookie dough, and I had double chocolate with caramello koala. YUM!!!

We went back to the same park to eat it.



This was our lunch eating view.

Then we rolled ourselves back to the car and drove back home.