Discovered the wonders of ‘cruise control’ today as we set out on the open road, heading north east from Geelong. Travelled over 500km in the direction of the Blue Mountains, where the sun is rumoured to be shining! Set the controls to 110km/h and all we had to do was steer! To begin with, the… Read more

Change of scene today, with the low cloud and heavy rain catching us up from The Grampians.  Set of in search of the famous surf mecca, ‘Bells Beach’. After a quick stop to visit ‘the other’ Anglesea, we parked up on the hill top and settled down to watch some surf action. You only really… Read more

We’ve left the drizzly, cloud shrouded summits if the Grampian Mountains and headed due south in search of sun, sea, surf and sand… We found all three along the ‘Great Ocean Road’ after a few hours of driving through rolling, green farmlands. On reaching the coast, and it’s superb collection of crumbling sandstone sea stacks,… Read more

A murky day dawned in the Grampians today, with the crags barely in view. It was quite eery walking into the gloomy burned out forest this morning. With all the warnings of Ozzy bugs etc, we were very glad to have been staying in the van last night. I’m not sure I’d have been too… Read more

It’s so tempting to stay at Arapiles and just spent the summer (Oz winter) living here, working through both the grades and the guidebook; climbing everything in sight. It really must be a contender for ‘best crag in the world’. But, Australia is a big place and there is still much to see and great… Read more

Australia had vanished into the mists this morning! Needed the headlights on to drive at 10am it was so thick…  Nipped back up to the top of Mt Arapilles first thing, in the hope that it might be above the layer of mist and cloud. This was the view that we got yesterday:  This was… Read more