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Trips: Chris and Charly Down Under Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia Chris and Charly's Pacific Island Pit-Stop Chris and Charly's mini trip to The States Chris and Charly's African Adventure Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey Shorthand link: http://blogabond.com/chrischarly

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12 Apostles

Warrnambool, Australia

Woke up to a grey morning, we waited a little hoping it would clear before the rest of the Great Ocean, but it didn’t unfortunately.

But we still tried to make the most of our day and saw as much as we could in between the rain, including the 12 apostles which are rocks of the shore.

We then went in search of a campsite stopping at one rubbish one, followed by another rubbishish one due to the severe winds which meant we had to keep the roof down all night as we were scared it would blow away.

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chrischarly on December 3, 2011 from Warrnambool, Australia

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Koalas at our campsite

Apollo Bay, Australia

Entering the Great Ocean Road

Went into Geelong to meet the Canadians and get a Deposit, all good. Then we headed, for our FINAL stage of our amazing journey, down the Great Ocean Road.

What an amazing road!

Driving along the Great Ocean Road

The weather was great, at last, and the scenery was beautiful. Found a great campsite half way, with koalas in residence, ate some fire cooked pasta and chilled with our Aussie neighbours for the evening.

The Koala at our campsite

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chrischarly on December 2, 2011 from Apollo Bay, Australia

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We sold the van! :) Will miss it though :(

Melbourne, Australia

Just need to see a wombat!

Woke up to a dry day and after talking to a local Chris realised that we might not have enough fuel to make it to the next fuel stop and was told to go and ask nicely at the local shop. He did and the guy gave us 5L for the tidy price of $2 per litre. Better than running out, but after 2 months we should be better than this at planning!! We headed back into Melbourne to St Kilda to show the van to some Canadian guys that Charly didn’t think would buy the van.

They rolled up on skate boards and checked out the van and seemed to love it. Told us they had some more to check and would call us later. We decided to stay at a delightful roadside stop on the motorway between Melbourne and Geelong. Not our finest spot but close to the city and free. Chris made an amazing corned beef hash and we chilled waiting for a call. The Canadians did call us back and bought the van, yippee, but they want it on Monday (2 weeks before our flight), bugger! Oh well at least we sold it, and relatively hassle free.

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chrischarly on December 1, 2011 from Melbourne, Australia

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1st viewing on our van

Northcote, Australia

Had a pretty long a stressful day today. Woke up early with tons of rain and thunder storms. Perfect weather for gutting out and cleaning the van! Typical. Luckily at the campsite the lady took pity on us and didn’t make us leave by 10am, which is checkout and said we could stay longer so at midday we set off for Northcote in Melbourne to see Tom, praying that he would want it, even though we have had other people phone up interested.

A blind dog on the back of a bike

He did fall in love with it at first sight which we knew anyone would, but he wants his friend to look it over on Saturday and a few other checks done, so as usual things don’t turn out as easy as we hoped, so still searching for more people in the meantime… After driving for a couple of hours east of the city for a free campsite we realised it would’ve just been cheaper to stay in the city than use loads of petrol! We never learn. Anyway, rubbish site and pouring with rain again.

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chrischarly on November 30, 2011 from Northcote, Australia

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Penguins!

Cowes, Australia

Woke up this morning to find 3 missed calls on our phone- looks like people are interested in the van already! That was quick, was hoping we could have it a little longer. Meeting a guy called Tom tomorrow who seems uber keen on buying it, so Chris dumped me off in MacDonalds whilst he went searching for a spare tyre and somewhere to get it serviced before tomorrow.

Then after getting everything ready for the van, which by the way nothing was found wrong with it, which is great news, we rushed down to Phillip Island to find the cheapest place to stay before going to see the penguins. Being super keen to get the best spot to see them, we sat out in the cold for almost 2 hours before the first one appeared, followed by the masses.

They are so funny to sit and watch waddling up the beach to their nests and also so tiny being the smallest breed of penguins their maximum height being 1ft or 33cm! We even got to see some baby chicks feeding off their mothers, but the babies are so fat and fluffy they are almost twice the size of their parents, which looks pretty funny! Unfortunately though we weren’t allowed to take any photos of them outside of The Entrance, which sucked, but was worth going just to see them so the photos here are of pictures inside.

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chrischarly on November 29, 2011 from Cowes, Australia

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Wilsons Promontory

Foster, Australia

About to cross the tidal river

Left our campsite this morning and drove to Wilson’s Promontory and it was nice to see some sunshine for a change!

Chris squeezing through

We drove to Tidal River first and went for a nice walk through the Forest a little before coming to the North of Norman’s Bay and we walked down the end of the beach, crossed a small River and went back to the car before visiting ‘Squeaky Beach’ named after the fine sand that when you walk on it, it squeaks, and then to Picnic Bay.

Lovely beach to ourselves

Entering the 'Prom'

Great day, but sure enough before it was over it started raining again, which was pretty irritating, but I suppose expected as we are now near Melbourne. We then headed back to the same campsite as last night and posted our van for sale on Gumtree hoping we will be able to sell it, but not too soon so we can go down further south.

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chrischarly on November 28, 2011 from Foster, Australia

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Flat tyre...

Walkerville, Australia

We've got a flat

Chris finding the spare

Completely destroyed tyre

Not the best start to the day by getting our first flat tyre on the van, in the middle of nowhere, but luckily we had a spare and I suppose we’re even luckier as it is our first one we’ve had so far, but Chris soon fixed it so we were back on the road again. After finally finding our campsite at Bear Gully Reserve, a little way west around the coast from Wilsons Prom, we found a great spot with a campfire already lit from the previous residents.

Setting up camp

Chris ran round and gathered a good pile of wood people had left behind and got the fire going well for the evening. Chris then disappeared to the beach rod in hand, but returned about an hour later with no fish. Apparently it was too rocky and he couldn’t get out without getting snagged up. He did manage to cook an amazing butter Chicken on the camp fire so it all ended well in the end.

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chrischarly on November 27, 2011 from Walkerville, Australia

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Koalas in the wild!

Raymond Island, Australia

We left the wet and cold stop at the side of the Snowy River, after the rain keeping us awake all night. It was a pretty grim day, but we headed to Raymond Island just off from Paynesville to go and see our first Koalas in the wild!

To go to Koalas

Mother and baby Koala!

2 koalas up a tree

Koala having a nap

Such a cute koala

It was awesome and we saw 22 in total all spotted by ourselves up in the Eucalyptus trees.

After about an hour walking around we ran to the Ferry headed for our next stop as quick as we could trying to avoid the thunder storm brewing. This was an okay stop at the side of another River just near Rosedale. As usual Chris found someone to talk to while I setup the van, this guy was a local cherry farmer who had setup in the roadside stop with a sign off the road. He did pretty well and Chris promised to get some in the morning before we left. It was pretty cold and wet still, so we just played cards and then went to our nice warm bed early to watch a film.

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chrischarly on November 26, 2011 from Raymond Island, Australia

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We struck GOLD!!

Club Terrace, Australia

Chris looking for gold

Woke up and re-made our fire to cook some breakfast before making a make-shift shower doing it the old traditional way of heating up water on the fire and washing with a cup.

At least we had the campsite and forest to ourselves so we could do it. Chris took a walk down to the River and we found lots of small pieces of gold sitting at the bottom of the River and a pink Crystal! We then drove further on to find another nice spot and Chris fished once again catching many fish but all too small for dinner so instead of fish to eat, we had egg sarnies.

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chrischarly on November 25, 2011 from Club Terrace, Australia

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Cheese factory

Eden, Australia

Went to the Bega Cheese Factory this morning before driving to Eden where we had fish and chips over-looking the harbour.

Didn’t do much else during the day but found a lovely place to stay in the evening in the middle of the Forest completely to ourselves alongside the Ada River.

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chrischarly on November 24, 2011 from Eden, Australia

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