Australia

I just got back from a holiday around South Australia and Victoria. I went with one of my friends from uni. We spent most of our time in SA because it was so beautiful. In true corrie style we made no plans, just booked a flight into Adelaide and out of Melbourne. The journey in between would be determined day by day. It was amazing. It's hard to explain everything we did because we did so much. I will write out some highlights.. We stayed one night in Adelaide where we went to the Woolshed- the pub known for its country vibes and mechanical bull rides. Hilarious. I met loads of people there and decided I like farmers for their gentle open nature. It was a great night. I also met a guy called russle from The Alice. He is an indiginous aussie from the bush. He taught me some of his language (how to say cigarette and lighter) and told me some stories about his life. This was cool because I'm going to be teaching in a school very similar to the one he described as his primary school. We decided to head as far north of SA as possible. We ended up in Hawker. Check it out on google. Not much there, but beautiful landscape. It is at the foot of the Flinders Ranges. We got up early and watched the sunrise over the cliffs. It was insane. At this point I fell madly in love with outback Australia. Then we needed to head to somewhere with phone reception because I had a job interview. We had been through Port Augusta and knew coverage was good there, so off we went. Had lunch at a place called Tassie. Got a phone call and had my interview with the indiginous elders of the community I applied for...and...got the job :-) big smiles from me! So I'm moving to Yiyili next year..and going up to see the school in a few weeks too. Another adventure ;-) So after that we made our way to Freeling, home of McLeods Daughters. I'm not a fan but had seen the show and recognized the town. We stayed at the Gungellan Pub and THAT was an experience!!! Let's just say I had to sleep with my bed jammed up against the door so no one could get in...those outback fellas haven't seen girls in a while. I was scared but we survived! I also had stacks of fun there though.. Quite a bit of bootscooting went down. So we took off from there and drove through a billion towns until we reached Mount Gambier. We got there at night so we bought a torch and went to see all the limestone sink holes lit up at night. It was beyond describable. Amazing. We had no accommodation booked that night so we drove into a caravan park and found a spot between two empty cabins. I slept in the boot. Interesting times. Went to blue lake in the morning and watched the sunrise over the ancient volcano. It was gorgeous and quite eery being the only people there. We passed through Warrnambool and saw a couple of whales dancing along the coast and then headed along the Great Ocean Road. We stopped at every lookout and admired it all. It was a sweet time to be there because the winds and waves were so huge that you actually got wet standing up on the cliffs. It was magical! And scary! I loved it. Somewhere in there we went to Port Fairy which was awesome too. We walked right out across the river mouth to the island on the coast and went for a bit of an exploration. Great fun. From Lorne we drove to Queenscliff and caught the ferry across to Sorento. We drove the Nepean Hwy through to Melb city where I hung out with my big bro and surprised my big sis. Then we came home! I've missed out so many of the little coastal towns that were awesome but I wanted to keep it reasonably readable! Haha. If you read through this far, well done good and faithful blogger.

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