Natalie and I have made it to Adelaide this afternoon. We are throughly exhausted, but are veryexcited to stay in one place for a few days before continuing the trip. It is also a great opportunity for me to catch up with my mates in Adelaide before heading off. Tomorrow with our local host, Owen, we are going to do some lazy exploration around the area. Earlier today before arriving into Adelaide we did wine and cheese tasting in the Barossa Valley. Mmmmm so good!

We have seen so many great and amazing things and been on some many

adventures in the last few days it is hard to know where to start with all of it. I suppose that will probably be the case for most of my blogs, so here we go... We went to these amazing limestone caves in Buchan, Victoria. They had all sorts of shiny, shimmering, and wet limestone growths of all sorts of colors hanging from the ceiling and coming up from the ground. We toured through a cave that was 500 metres long called the Royal Cave, it was easy to see where it got its name. It was just stunning to walk through the little pathways & duck below the openings to get into the different caverns. It is really hard to describe how cool it was to be in these caves.Although, we did have a bit of trouble towards the end of the walk through the caves. In our true form we tried to get a jumping photo in the cave. This proved to be much more difficult than normal as the timing of the camera with the flash was hard to get right. I jumped so many times that I actually started feeling it in my calves. On one of the last big caverns we let everyone else walk ahead as we tried to get the best jumping shot, the only problem was that the tour guide did not notice we were with them and turned off all of the lights! So we were in an extremely dark cave where there are just small winding pathways to get out about to be locked in... needless to say we rushed on out of there by the light of our cameras. Thankfully we were able to catch up with the rest of the group in the nick of time. But it was all worth it to get the jumping photo in the cave.After going through the caves we continued to see stunning views of the ocean and hills through the south east of Australia.

We went through the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, saw the mouth of the Snowy River, drove over the first bridge to span the Murray River, and have been hiking through different ecosystems all along the way. We stopped in Melbourne over night and a group of 9 of my friends met us on Lygon street (a trendy street in Melbourne) for dinner. We had some good laughs and some good catch ups and said goodbye again to some more of my friends in Australia.... I can not tell if it is getting easier to say goodbye to all of my friends here or if it is getting harder.

We went to The Grampians in Victoria, which is a spectacular mountain range. Unfortunately we arrived ready to do some serious hiking just as a huge storm was releasing it's wrath o

n the area. The entire area had a thick layer of fog covering it. We got

a few glimpses of how awesome the views would be on a clear day, at other spots we were greeted with just a white wall. As it was pouring down rain, cold and extremely windy we decided not to do any of the long walks, instead we drove through the range on a windy road and stopped at a few lookouts and did a 2km walk to a spectacular

waterfall. (See photo on left) With the rains and floods all around the waterfall was displaying it's best for us. As we were driving along I quite often had to dodge trees that had fell across the road, a couple times the two of us girls had to get out of the car and push the tree out of the way far enough for us the pass through. At another point we ended up driving close to 6kms up the wrong way on a windy one-way road. It all kept us on our toes and we truly appreciated the heater in the car.

After a late night in Melbourne, a late night last night trying to gain a few extra hours of driving after dark, and driving over 2500kms we are really looking forward to a very early sleep tonight, so good night to you all. :)

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