Tuesday, November 07, 2006

We're in New Zealand now. Just got to Aukland yesterday. It seems like a cool city, lots of stuff going on anyways. It poured rain quite a bit yesterday but it's not too cold. We can see this big tower downtown from our hostel window and we can see people bungy jumping off it and stuff. Very cool. The flight was good, but we we're pretty sad to leave Australia. It's an absolutely amazing country, full of so much awesome stuff that I never even knew existed. I'm pretty sure we'll all be back there one day. But yeah, saying that its on to the next adventure I guess. Today we're gonna figure out what we're gonna do here and how we'll get around the country etc. So yeah, hope everyone is well at home. xoxo

Thursday, November 02, 2006

HEllo! I am in MElbourne now at last and it is kinda chilly. Probly not like home though so I'm not complaining. We did a whole day tour of the great ocean road which was unbelievably cool. It's the road from Melbourne to Adelaide which is South Australia and it's along the coast pretty much thewhole way. We stopped at Bel's beach, one of the most famous surf beach in the world. And went for a walk through the temperate rainforest at Mait's rest. It was beautiful, we saw 2000 year old eucalyptus trees and ferns that were 3 times as tall as us. SO green and pristine. Parts of the coastline were just straight down cliffs for miles and you look out into the the ocean and can see the horizon curve all the way around and you feel like you're in the middle of a circle. It the most intense feeling of expanse I've ever experienced and it makes you feel really tiny standing on those cliffs. We saw the 12 apostles and hung out for sunset which was one of those crazy golden rays coming out of the bottom of the clouds ones, really beautiful. The apostles are huge free standing rock stacks that we're worn away and seperated from the cliffs over time. Definitely one of the most surreal things I've ever seen. We also stopped and found a bunch of wild koala's and fed wild parrots. It was a really good day. Tonight we head to Sydney and we'll check out Bondi and Manley beach in the next couple days, then off to New Zealand on the 7th. xoxox