Our first stop along the Great Ocean Road was at Apollo Bay. My plan was to use our stop here to visit the Otways National Park, but we had picked up an illness, and needed a rest stop. We stayed in a cabin at the Apollo Bay Pisces Big 4 Holiday Park. As was the …
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Great Ocean Road trip (April 2019)
After a few nights in Melbourne, we set off for our trip to the Great Ocean Road. Our first stop wasn't very far into the trip - we stopped at Torquay to buy some food for lunch, drove randomly towards the water (it was raining and we had no plan), saw a park with shelters, …
Fraser Island: the car trip with kids
This is a quick round up of what I tried to keep the kids occupied with during the drive up to Fraser Island (K'Gari), what I thought would work and what didn't work. First up: ipads combined with these $10 car headrest tablet holders from Kmart. Our oldest has a car seat with speakers build in, …
Fraser Island: The Maheno
We were leaving Eli Creek when I looked at the map and realised that we hadn't done a visit to the Maheno. It is quite close to Eli Creek, and we wanted to check out The Cathedrals camping group for future trip research, so we headed up for a quick visit to the Maheno. We …
Fraser Island: Eli Creek
We did have plans this day to drive up to the Champagne Pools, then come back down the island, but a car sick child meant that we decided to stop at Eli Creek and declare ourselves done. Our group of friends split into two along who was sick of driving and wanted to settle for …