Great Ocean Road and Grampians Tour

Hi again!  Thursday and Friday this week were spent on a 2-day bus tour of the Great Ocean Road and Grampians National Park.

Day 1 was primarily the Great Ocean Road.  I was picked up from the hostel at 7:30am - not my best time of day.  And the night before was the one and only night that some of the girls in my room decided to be really obnoxious coming home from the bar and woke us all up.  Luckily, we had time for a quick nap on the bus before we got to anything interesting.

The views were stunning the whole way.  The winds were strong (at times I couldn't hold my camera straight) and icy cold.  Still a great day though.

And we saw wild koalas!  This felt like my first really Australian experience!

Day 2 was another early start after another poor sleep, but the icy cold gusts woke me up quickly once we got up the "mountain".  The Grampians are a mountain range, but they don't quite compare to the mountains back home.  There were still some beatiful views to be had though.

Kangaroos outside our hostel in the morning!

After the Grampians we checked out the Agoriginal Cultural Centre and went on a quick wine tour on the way back to Melbourne.  Oh, and somewhere in there I learned how to throw a boomerang!  It's actually surprisingly easy.

All-in-all, a fantastic tour.  Now, time to go check out Sydney!