We Made It!

Hey everyone we just wanted to let you know that we made it home safely. The trip was long but we arrived last night at 630. We had a good sleep even if it was till noon hehe. Anyway thanks again for everyone who supported us through the trip. We have lots of pictures and stories to share. Until our next adventure so long.

The Final Chapter...

So yesterday we explored Phillip Island its not a very big island so it was fairly easy to explore the whole thing in one day. We got on island around 9ish and we left around 5 so it was a nice long day. At first we were just bouncing from beach to beach then we decided it would be much more time effective to just take a cruise along the coast. So dad got us a cruise while i parked the car we got some chips(fries) and headed on down to the dock. Where we waited a little while then borded the ship...we secured the only seats facing backward off the top deck and we were very pleased with ourselves for the choice. The coastline was quite beautiful but after a while it all kinda looked the same. Soon though we came to the highlight of the trip. Seal Rock...this rock has almost 10000 seals living on it currently that's right 10000. It was amazing to see all of the seals on the rocks and swimming in the water. It was truly an amazing experience and one that dad and I are quite blessed to have been apart of. Thank you so much for reading along on our adventure. Tomorrow we are getting on a plane at 6 am and then we will arrive in Los Angelas at 7am. So that will be a nice quick flight hehe...just kidding its 15 hours. Anyway thanks again for all the support this has truly been a life changing experience and one that we both feel incredibly blessed to have gone on. So from our hotel room here in Melbourne Vic, Australia we say so long and we will see you soon!

90 Mile Beach...

So yesterday we drove from mallacoota to a place called bairnsdale. It was a nice drive with some very beautiful beaches. We were very fortunate to find a room in bairnsdale we had been looking for about 3 hours in previous towns and such when we finally found bairnsdale. It was a nice little town but nothing was open and so we just called it a night. Today we drove from there to a town called Wonthaggi. We stopped at a couple awesome places. One was the 90 mile beach and the other was Eagles nest. The 90 mile beach was amazing it was about 100 feet wide and just strethed in either direction as far as the eye could see. Dad and I hiked on down the beach skipping rocks and looking for shells just enjoying the sand and the sun. Then we moved on and on the way to wonthaggi we just drove past the eagles nest and thought we would stop by and see it. It was awesome, these pictures I took when I jumped over the guard rail and headed down to the side of the cliff. There were people surfing down in the cove below us so we hung around for a while and watched them. It was a very nice relaxing day. Tomorrow we are going to go to Phillip Island and watch the penguins there then we are going to get one more room before returning our car on tuesday and getting ready for our super long flight back. Thanks again for following along with us on this incredible journey. Until tomorrow see ya around.

The Snowy Mountains

Due to technical difficulties and to the fact that no stores are open because its good friday I dont have any new multimedia content. However I do have some pictures from when we crossed the Snowy mountains on our long trip to Sydney from Corryong. Think of it as the "Lost Blog" that is just being published. So we headed out of corryong on a bright and sunny morning(Actually it was closer to noon)and soon we found ourselves climbing out of the valley up into the hills. After about 45 minutes we came to one of several hydro-electric stations that make up the Snowy Mountain Scheme. This was amazing to see, instead of using a river to spin their turbines they actually pumped water through pipes over the top of the mountain and let the gravity feed do the rest. We kept going up into the winding hills and the hairpin turns after about an hour we came to a massive lookout with an amazing view of the pass and the major mountains that we between us and the coast Then we head on our way after marveling that the highest peak in australia is only 6000ft roughly. We crossed more and more mountains and more twists and more turns in the road until finally we broke out of the hills onto vast plains. These were just forever going it seemed almost kansas like but even dad remarked the sky felt way bigger. Another couple of hours pass and then we started to notice huge huge rocks just out in the middle of the fields. Every where we looked there were rocks coming out of the ground and sheep grazing all around them it was very strange. Soon after that dad took a nap and I drove on for another 100 km or so finally stopping in a town called Golburn to get some food. We ate and then dad drove for another hour or so till we started to get into a city like area. Then we switched places and I drove the rest of the way into sydney and our hotel. Thanks for reading along I will try and find a place to fix our camera tomorrow but failing in that I will take some pics with my phone and post those.

A day at the beach

Hello again everyone today was fantastic! We just spent the day walking along the beach looking at tide pools and playing in the waves. We went into the sleepy little town of Milton where we found dad some swim trunks for 2 dollars thats right 2 dollars needless to say dad was tickled pink. After wandering around the town for a while we headed back to our room and then after a tip from the lady at reception we walked around a point on the beach to find a rock pocketed with hundreds of little tidepools. It was very cool to say the least. Then we had some real authentic fish and chips at a little cafe down by the water. Tomorrow we are heading to malacoota which is on the southeast corner of Australia. Ok so I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that are camera battery is dead and for some reason is not charging properly. The good news is that we are going to buy an adapter tomorrow so we should be back in the picture business soon. Alright well we will be back tomorrow. Here are some pictures where we are staying.

Relaxing Down the Coast.

Today we took a nice leisurely drive down the coast from sydney. We are 219km south of sydney and man our we in an amazing place. There is a huge beach with the softest sand imaginable. We stopped at some really gorgeous places along the way. Places with nice views and sandy beaches. Also some places that had really cool rocks jutting out into the water. Then we finally came to Milton. We actually just stopped for gas and dad just asked the guy at the gas station if he knew of any places on the beach and here we are. This place is so cool we booked another night. Tomorrow we should get the sun rising just over the ocean hopefully as long as the clouds are not in the way. We are going to lay low tomorrow and just chill. But we will definitely take many more pictures tomorrow and let you guys know whats up.

Sydney!!

Yesterday we drove from Corryong down into Sydney. It was a long drive and thats all I will say about it. We got in about 7:30 monday night and since we didn't have any internet we also didnt have any hotel reservations. Fortunately we used the GPS to find a Holiday Inn which turned out to be amazing. It is a really nice room and in a great location. Today we walked down to the wharf and then over to the Opera House which was pretty cool to see. Also tonight they are having the new Star Trek red carpet premiere. We just saw it on the news that all the celebs were there crazy I know. Anyway after we hung out there for a while we headed over to the train station and took the train over to the sydney aquarium. This was hands down the best aquarium I have ever been to. There were so many cool things to see but the best was probably this huge tank with sharks, manta rays, turtles and an assortment of fish. There were two walking tubes about 200 feet long that went along the bottome of the tank. It was amazing to have all these animals swimming right next to and over us. Dad and I were very impressed. After that we made our way back through the big city with dad feeling very out of place. Then we saw the perfect sign and we had to get a picture of it. We made it back safely and then laid low for most of the rest of the day. Tomorrow we are heading down the coast to somewhere. We will be sure to keep you guys updated.