Australia
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Day 148 – Happy Valentines Day, y’all ❤️
Kick start the day with a filter coffee and porridge while we wake up slow Realise the time and get a move on – got to make sure we’re checked out in time as this place has coded gates to get out which will expire after 10am Out to South Warrnambool where their pier is…
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Day 147 – Pancake Day by the bay
Start the day right, with coffee and pancakes – happy pancake day! Head just down the road to the giant California Redwoods – remnants from the past logging times. Only 82 years old but can confirm they are quite tall! Next stop is Hopetoun Falls. 201 steps and some slopes down you are at the…
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Day 146 – The animals of Otway National Park
A decent sleep – woo! Slow morning where we have a couple of filter coffees with some porridge and hot cross buns while we do a couple admin tasks Now, for the lighthouse – it was built in 1848, being the second on the mainland and the oldest surviving one, and it’s light was visible…
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Day 145 – Digging Victoria
Up with hotel continental breakfast before heading out down the road Sovereign Hill is a tourist hotspot in the area and preserves and shares the history of gold in Aussie There are horse-drawn carriages trotting round and people working here dressed in 1800s attire and doing talks about the time We hear from an officer/soldier…
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Day 144 – Koala hunting on French Island
Another rough sleep, thanks to the upstairs neighbours, but we get a little refund thankfully We try out the new filter coffee we have and it does the trick nicely – beats instant ???? Check out, grab a takeaway coffee and drive nearer to town The Cowes Jetty hosts the ferry which takes us across…
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Day 143 – Rarring for another roadtrip
So much chaos around our room, including late night shouting, public transport and chavvy-car behaviour ???? We even find out we’ve slept through a small earthquake last night! We get ready with what low level of sleep we got and ran from The Great Southern Hotel… all the way to Krispy Kreme round the corner…
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Day 142 – Chillin in the city
For the first time in a long time we have a lie in bed and chill morning Finally out and about we pop into Petit Corner for a cheeky flat white on flinders street We head up to Fortune Alley to have some noodles – a place we spotted last time we were in Melbourne…
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Day 141 – Until next time Tasmania
We have our final Banjos breakfast in Hobart before dropping off the car and getting a lift to the airport; through security and hang around for an hour or 2 Board, fly, land back in Melbourne where we grab the Skybus to the city centre and check in to the Great Southern Hotel Some laundry…
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Day 140 – Follow the White Wallaby
Wake up to the gorgeous seascape out of our cabin window, have a filter coffee, hot cross bun and shower and out Drive down to the end of the island to see Cape Bruny Lighthouse Completed in 1838 it’s the second oldest lighthouse still standing in Australia after quite a few shipwrecks in the area.…
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Day 139 – Hot for Bruny Island
Cheeky coffee and muffins at the Bakery across the street (an old sawmill) Drive down to the Hastings Caves: the only “easily accessible” Dolomite caves in Tasmania Discovered in 1917 by loggers in the area, this 3km cave is 50m under the forest floor has all the jazzy cave features of straws, stalagmites, stalactites and…