Hollow Mountain . The Grampians Vic,

This was an amazing climb up the Hollow Mountain at The Grampians.

Mt. Zero road , which goes to the Moutain.

Hollow Mountain

The walking tracks up the mountain. I am still shaking from the climb up lol

Beautiful views from the top. Well worth the hard hike up.

Yep that is me.... I really did go up there :)

Australian Bush spiders

I know these pictures are not for everyone, and even I have to be honest that I am petrified of spiders, but my desire to get pictures of a different kind, helps me overcome my fear.

Well it's either that or miss out on the many fun walks we do in Australian National parks and bushes.

I will update this page with new spiders and their names, so if you are interested, watch this space.

Kangaroos

Kangaroos grazing infront of our Hotel while staying in Halls Gap, The Grampians.

This is not one of my best quality picture , but still exciting to be actually taking one of Kangaroos in the wild :)

Old coalmines - Lallal Vic

We have finally picked up our Rental car and can start making the Australia roads unsafe with our driving. LOL For those of you reading this - we come from Switzerland, where we drive on the right side.... lets hope we remember which side is our LEFT....lol
Our rental is a Toyota Kruger. Great car.... especially for those inbetween naps when B. (my husbands) forgets I have shorter legs then him, and get tired while trying to keep up with him all day.. :)

As usual, we decided to go Geocaching, as this is the best way to find spots of interest, that one as a common tourist usually doesn't find. On our first trip we went to visit old Coalmines in a quaint little town called Lallal. This picture does NOT do the steep walk downhill justice. Not sure what was worse, walking down or back up, but I can tell you, my knees are still shaking..

Think I am gonna hurt tomorrow :(

The cache was hidden inside that mine. I think the picture speaks more then words. Please note though, that is NOT MY BACKSIDE..... LOL

I sat guard outside, and entertained myself by taking pictures of hugh horseflies with scary looking eyes. Even though they were constantly landing on me, I was truly lucky not to get bitten, as their bites can be very painful. This one was sitting on my knee when I took the pic :)

This is one of those *I don't know what it's called..* trees, that got caught in a fire. Amazing how these plants recover from the fires.

This thistle was very interesting looking. This is one plant, but has all the stages of growth from green, to flowering, to dried up.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures of todays trip :)

Half way . Welcome to Singapore

Singapore..our first stop-over after flying 11.3 hours. One board entertainment, and regular meals kept us busy for the first and longest part of our flight :) Well I can't really complain, I have short legs and so sat comfortably in my seat,... and with the many films that we can watch on our own private tv, the time went quickly for us. :)
I find Singapore Airport to be one of the nicest airports I have visited.

Here some pictures taken in the Transit section..... enjoy :)

We landed safetly on the evening of the 4th March 2011.... :)

Let the holiday begin :)

Back to Australia March 2011

Hi All,

Well here we are, going to visit Family in Australia again :) This time we are staying 4 weeks. I do wonder what trouble we will get into in that time :)

We left our home in Switzerland at 7am, and I hate to say this.... totally uneventful. I didnt forget anything last minute, we didn't nearly miss the bus, the plane was on time...boring boring....and totally not usual for me, cause I usually do at least one, or most of the above mentioned things. Nothing like giving a trip a bit of excitement.... even though my husband totally disgrees with me :) LOL

For those of you that have never had the privilage of flying with an Boeing A380 Airbus, I highly recommend it. These planes are great! More leg space, big tv screens, better reclining seats then in the older planes.

Instead of just taking pictures of the wings and clouds , I decided to take some of the inside for a change :)

Enjoy........... ;)

Lerderderg National Park

The 3rd day of our trip around victoria with our ohhhh so great car, from which I sometimes don't feel like getting out of. lol was on dry land. We visited Lerderderg National park in Blackwood, vic. This park offered a bit of everything....lots of dry, bit of wet, heaps of bumpy roads....and endless roads that just took us around and around the park, looking for a way out. After finding out way out, we rewarded ourselves with a low fat, healthy hamburger :)

Hope you enjoy the photos :)

North Shore Geelong

Well finally a moment to write to you all and show you some of the things we have been doing.

After picking up our rental car (which is better then anything I have ever driven in ) we decided to start our trips with a place not to far from home.... in Australia of course an hour or more from home is still close to home :). Even though I have been to Geelong often in my childhood, the Northshore is an area I haven't never visited before, so was interesting to see. Never quite realised we had an oil refinery so close. Can't say I was very impressed.... well at least my nose was not impressed with the smells that I was not able to capture with these pictures. :)

Hope you enjoy the pictures :)

We have landed :)

We have landed :) And what a beautiful time to land it was, short after sunset, as the picture shows.

I wish I could say that our trip was totally uneventful (just as dear hubby wishes it to be) but it seems the harder I try, the likelier the chance I will muck it up and cause some kind of drama to start the holiday off with. Well why should this time be different. LOL The whole morning, while packing my hand luggage, I kept reminding myself *don't forget the camera......!!!* And what do I do ?? I walk out the door to the busstop and just as I get there, what do I remember??? *I FORGOT MY CAMERA*!!!! I seriously don't know who was more shocked....!!! Me - for suddenly realising I had forgotten my camera, or my husband, who especially want to leave earlier to avoid stress, watching me running back to the house, and risking missing the bus for my camera! But at that moment I had only one thought, I can't go without my camera... time enough to run back.

Well I made it back in time, wheezing, huffing and puffing like an old Swiss steam train (hey, believe me I have no condition to brag about LOL ) and then panic attack..... *WHERE WAS HE??*. I thought, *Sheesh,I have missed the bus and he has seriously gone without me*!!! But it was payback time. He was hidden behind the busstop wall.

I am laughing about it now... he still isn't! LOL

But we made it, and now it's holiday time :)

Count down

Oh my, this trip has simply flown. 2 more sleeps and it's time to fly home :(

Yesterday we spent a nice day in the City of Melbourne. Even though I have seen this City so often, it's high skyscrapers that can be seen from so many areas around the city, never cease to fascinate me.

Well folks, off to enjoy the last couple of days.... this is my last post here. See you all on the other side :)

All in one day!

I wonder if there is any other country in the world that can offer

so much scenic variety, and weather changes in one day?

We went from cold and clowdy to sunny and hot through out the day.

Today we drove a total of about 250km to Penincula Bay, Victoria.
Our first stop was a walk in the forest where we visited some old

Bunkers and then off to Cape Schanck.

Lots and lots of stairs in the nice hot sun :) I live in hope that I

managed to burn some calories....which of course I was constantly

replacing....lol

On our way home we stopped of at Frankston Beach where we had

dinner in a Restaurant along the beach and after dinner watched

the sunset.

What a way to end the day :)

Australian ants

I think the first picture doesn't need much explaining except THAT is

how BIG Australian ants get!

This one crossed our path during a walk in the forest.

As you can see from the second picture, they also have enough of

the tiny ones. :) :)