Great Ocean Road

Melbourne was good to us, free poker tournaments, cheap pizza and nachos, great people, but it was time to move on in our journey. We got in touch with an Australian friend of ours whom we met backpacking in Edmonton around halloween last year, Ana. Ana said that we would be more then welcome to stay at her place if we decided to go to Adelaide, so off to Adelaide we went. We had been told by countless people that the Great Ocean Road was "great" so we(Matt, Jordan and Bob) booked a 3 day tour. The GOR is a section of highway that runs for about 200km along the South coast after Melbourne. And as you can tell from the pictures, it's one of the most scenic drives in the world. The 12 Apostles, London Bridge, koalas, and a crazy Aussie tour guide named Peter. We finished the GOR in a day and a half then made our way into the Grampian mountain range for some hikeing and kangaroo dodging in our bus. After going a month and only seeing roos in zoos, we were having a hard time making our way around without picking them off the highways. Coming from the Rockies, the Grampians looked like baby mountains, but the views from the top made up for their puny stature. We spent the night in a cabin in the middle of the mountains, had an Aussie BBQ, sang songs around the fire and watched the most amazing stars I've ever seen! Our tour seemed to end as quickly as it began in a little city by the name of Ballarat and from there we hoped on the overnight bus to Adelaide for 8 hours of drug induced slumber. Ahhh Gravol...