Sunset

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The view we had every evening, when it wasn't raining.  Have to admit.. I am missing this one.  Glad to be home but I am going to miss a few things.
photo credit- Jordan Erickson

Great Ocean Road continued..

So I guess I am going to have to re size all my pictures that I want to post.. very annoying.
Cute little bugger! At the Koala cafe.

Here are the 12 Apostles.. these pictures don't do it justice.  These were so cool to see.  Only a couple of these remain some have fallen already.  Click on the link .. it shows some much better pictures.

One of Jordan's panorama shots...  it was a gorgeous day.. well worth the drive.  I had to re size it, sorry it is so small .
*After looking at it, I guess the pictures are sized just right*

Great Ocean road trip..

Well it's about time I blog again.. but I am having problems getting the pictures on here.. it's not wanting to let me load them up for some reason..
We have driven down the great ocean road before but didn't go to far. This time we wanted to make it all the way to the 12 apostles. Also last time we went it was winter and this time it was summer.

Playing on the beach in Lorne, VIC

Cooper thought it was fun until the water actually touched his feet.

Further down the road in Kenneth River we stopped by the Koala cafe for lunch again and to see all the wild Koalas in the area. Only this time they all had babies with them. Very cute site to see.

A Kookaburra sitting in a Gum tree.

Well...I have lots more to post but this is all blogger is letting me up load on pictures...
Is anyone else having a problem? I just comes up as server error every time. Any help would be great. I have read online with people having similar issues that they went back to the old posting set up and it started working again. I have tried this with no luck. I will try a new post and see if that helps.

Happy 30th Birthday Megan

Happy Birthday Megan and welcome to the land of the 30s. Looks like we have to be adults now.

Mt. Buller

 I am not sure how many ski resorts are in Australia.. but Jordan had to visit one of them even if it might be the only one!  Ok maybe there might be 5.  So after we drove Mt. Sterling we drove Mt. Buller as they are right next to each other.  Only this one has a paved road all the way up.

 At the top of the mountain next to the ski lift.

 Jordan would have loved to come during the winter and actually skied. 

I think the best part about this drive were the warning signs.  They were hilarious.  Australia has heaps of warning signs and rarely are their two the same.  Here is a kangaroo on skis and we are guessing a peacock.

 We saw this one and were like what the heck..

 Then around the corner we saw this.  The gnome house.

 Here again a kangaroo and a wombat this time.

 On the way back down the mountain almost to the bottom we spotted these gnomes.  Actually it was quite funny since we saw the first gnome house we told the girls to be on the look out for another one.  So all of a sudden Dottie says.. look a gnome house (only she was just joking so she thought) and I was like, oh there are more gnomes and she was like.. oh really HA. 

On our way home with the mountains in the background.

Mt. Sterling (Craig's Hut)

 We decided to make the trek up to Mount Sterling to see Craig's Hut from the movie "The Man from Snowy River."  It's about a 3 hour drive from where we are in Melbourne.


Dottie always helping her brother.

 It was cool to see.  Although this is not the original one from the movie.  The first one was built for the movie in the early 80's.  That one was not taken care of and became very run down.  Then a 4WD tour group company took it over and fixed it up so they could take tours up there.  Then in 2006 it was taken out by a wild fire. It was then rebuilt by that same company in '07 and '08.  It isn't exactly the same but pretty close.

 Very beautiful views.

 It was a trek to get up there though.  This picture doesn't really show this road very well.  Once we got to the mountain it was all dirt road up.  Then the last little bit was 4WD only road.  It was actually very steep and not a very good road.  Jordan was in heaven though driven around.  We did not have a 4WD vehicle but it was an AWD.  Jordan said it would work just fine.  Scary!

 Enjoying the ride back down the mountain.

 With all the rain that Victoria has been having lately there has been lots of flooding and washed out roads.  Yes the road up the mountain was technically closed because of washed out roads.  But they were still letting people up it.

 Every so often we would come across the washed out parts.  Scary!

 Coming up to the washed out area.. this is on the way back down so we have already driven over it once.

 This was the worst one.  This is after we just went over it and looking back. 

Here again looking back.  I just closed my eyes and Jordan gunned it!

Melbourne Zoo and the Sea Sheperd

 Emma had her pen and notebook like she always does.  She was writing down all the animals she saw and drawing  pictures of them.

 cooper loved looking through the windows.  I think they were looking at the monkey's here.

 He spent a good amount of time on Jordan's shoulders though.  Hard to keep up as he doesn't walk very fast.

 The elephants with the baby's the girls loved this.

 

 Walking around with the Emu's.  Jordan loved this.

 Cooper and the girls chasing the birds.

 The Sea Sheperd was parked out in our bay for a while.  We could see it from our living room.  Jordan took the girls over for a tour one Sunday arvo. (Australian for afternoon)

 Dottie in the captain seat.