Friday, October 10, 2008

Our arrival in the land down under






When we arrived in Melbourne, Australia in April it was admist a huge storm and we wondered what we had let ourselves in for. Driving away from Melbourne's airport all we could see were clouds of red dust and the further out we got there were trees strewn across the main roads and all sorts of devastation and destruction from the strong winds.

Heading for Adelaide we decided to drive the Great Ocean Road - the scenery both on land and off is fascinating or least we think it is! - couldn't see too far because of the dust storms and the mucky rain!!! Normally rain will clear your windscreen, not that day it was mucky!!
We saw our first and so far only wild Koala on the drive just before we reached Mt Gambier, there were also emus feeding at the edge of a forest but of course the camera was in the boot at that point - typical!


4 comments:

Gennasus said...

Another blogger is born! Been waiting for this. Looking forward to seeing and hearing more of your life down there.

Pyatshaw said...

Keep the photos coming!

jakay said...

That seagull only has one leg!!!

Pyatshaw said...

re seagull- must be because it is Australian-it will have been involved in some sort of fracas-they're all criminals anyway, are they not???--only joking!