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Our car is still dead but we have left it in the capable hands of the Toyota mechanics in Colac. We hope they're capable hands. We won't be seeing it again until next Thursday when we need it to head up to the Grampians with Jason's family for next weekend, which we're looking forward to.
In the meantime, we'll elaborate on the previous post which was somewhat rushed. On our Great Ocean Road 'holiday' we also stopped at the 12 apostles; a rock formation along the coast. We stayed there to watch the sun set so that was nice. Be prepared for about 150 photos of that evening.
The whole coastline is littered with these formations where the cliffs have been battered by the sea. The area is known as 'shipwreck coast' because loads of ships have hit the rocks over the years, and bits of wreckages can even be found at some places. A bit of a tribute to that is at Warrnambool (which we can pronounce, even if you can't) at a place called Flagstaff Hill. It's a little setting all done up to look like an old maritime village, very neat. They do a night show there similar to the one we saw on Sentosa, where images are projected onto a fountain. This one told the story of one of the more famous ships to go down, the Loch Ard, so it was a bit more interesting.
Our last stop before taking the hire car back was Tower Hill, an old volcano which is now a sort of wildlife park. As soon as we arrived we were welcomed by some emus, and then as we parked up, a koala was wandering around. There are some kangaroos there as well but we didn't hang around for too long so missed them.
We stopped in Colac for the next few days, saving money by sitting in a cheap hotel watching telly, and then jumped on a train to Melbourne which is our current residence. We're staying in a place which is like student halls but more international and less smelly.
Last night we went up to the observation deck, a big skyscraper giving you a view of the city and ended the night with a oyster farmer from South Australia trying to convince us to go and work at his place. He tried to convince us by buying us Sam Buca all night though, so we took his business cards and will get back to him later. For Jo, Mick and co., he's about an hour south of Adelaide if you get stuck for work...
This morning we did a spot of shopping and tomorrow it's off to Albert Park for the GRAND PRIX!
No chance of posting pics here unfortunately - we'll sort that out when we can.
Our car is still dead but we have left it in the capable hands of the Toyota mechanics in Colac. We hope they're capable hands. We won't be seeing it again until next Thursday when we need it to head up to the Grampians with Jason's family for next weekend, which we're looking forward to.
In the meantime, we'll elaborate on the previous post which was somewhat rushed. On our Great Ocean Road 'holiday' we also stopped at the 12 apostles; a rock formation along the coast. We stayed there to watch the sun set so that was nice. Be prepared for about 150 photos of that evening.
The whole coastline is littered with these formations where the cliffs have been battered by the sea. The area is known as 'shipwreck coast' because loads of ships have hit the rocks over the years, and bits of wreckages can even be found at some places. A bit of a tribute to that is at Warrnambool (which we can pronounce, even if you can't) at a place called Flagstaff Hill. It's a little setting all done up to look like an old maritime village, very neat. They do a night show there similar to the one we saw on Sentosa, where images are projected onto a fountain. This one told the story of one of the more famous ships to go down, the Loch Ard, so it was a bit more interesting.
Our last stop before taking the hire car back was Tower Hill, an old volcano which is now a sort of wildlife park. As soon as we arrived we were welcomed by some emus, and then as we parked up, a koala was wandering around. There are some kangaroos there as well but we didn't hang around for too long so missed them.
We stopped in Colac for the next few days, saving money by sitting in a cheap hotel watching telly, and then jumped on a train to Melbourne which is our current residence. We're staying in a place which is like student halls but more international and less smelly.
Last night we went up to the observation deck, a big skyscraper giving you a view of the city and ended the night with a oyster farmer from South Australia trying to convince us to go and work at his place. He tried to convince us by buying us Sam Buca all night though, so we took his business cards and will get back to him later. For Jo, Mick and co., he's about an hour south of Adelaide if you get stuck for work...
This morning we did a spot of shopping and tomorrow it's off to Albert Park for the GRAND PRIX!
No chance of posting pics here unfortunately - we'll sort that out when we can.
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