Alice’s Gap Year Travels

It’s been a few days since my last entry which is due to the fact that we’ve just done a 3 day road trip up to Sydney 🙂

Finishing off Melbourne:

We met ‘Janelle’ from neighbours who was ‘Stingray’ and ‘Dylans’ mum..remember?! haha and then also after our tour we were just in St.Kilda and saw the woman who plays ‘Steph’ shopping 🙂 That afternoon we went and got burnt on the beach – we learnt our lesson though and have been slapping on the factor 30+ ever since!!!

Next day we did The Great Ocean Road tour, it was an early pick up at 8am but it was worth it – we saw wild koala’s, went into a pine forest, saw the 12 Apostles (rock formations in the sea, google them) and paddled on a little beach formed in a gorge – to name just a few things.

Roadtrip time:

We were collected at 6.30am by an Oz Experience Adventure bus, the Oz experience is the main bus we’ll be getting up the east coast but this was a smaller advernture bus as we decided to do the 3 night tour instead of going straight to Sydney. There were about 22 of us on the bus and our driver was Luke, fully equipped with the surfer blond highlights, piercings and aussie enthusiasm! He would speak on a mic as we drove telling us all kinds of info about everything we saw, historical, wildlife, the works plus to keep us evtertained we’d take it in turns to sit up front with him and play.. “1 minute of honesty!” in which he would ask 5 questions.. you get the idea, we’d also do things like play bus pictionary as we were allowed to draw on the windows! Our nickname was Team Cocktail as on the bus we had a real cocktail of nationalities – brits, canadians, swedes, danish, norweigen, isralie, german, french to name but a few!

The first day we went to Wilsons National Park which was beautiful and did a walk down to a white sandy beach called ‘Squeaky Beach’ due to the fact that when you walk over it, it squeaks. That night we stayed at Lakes Entrance and had a fish and chip supper 🙂 Next day we drove to a place called Threadbo and climbed mount Kosioscko* which took us to the highest point in the whole of Australia! Holly and I made it to the top first and then once we got back to where we were staying we the group made full use of the hot tub and pool 🙂 It was a small ski town and getting back down the mountain you can get a chairlift half way which was surreal riding one DOWN the mountain! After another early start we reached Canberra, the capital city of Oz. Here we visited the parliment buildings, we did a guided tour and totally unexpectedly SAW THE PRIME MINISTER of Australia in ‘session’ which was really cool! Throughout the trip everyone made good friends and we did lots of other little stops too but thought i’d just summarise it all for the blog – we also saw our first wild kangaroos as we drove along and on reaching Sydney a lot of us are in the same hostel which is nice.

SYDNEY:

So last night was our first one in Sydney, and was did a pub crawl on a craaazzzy party bus, literally, this bus had strobe lights, its own dj, and big fans, you could barely move for people and as we drove from bar to bar everyone bangs the roof along to the music and jumps up and down so it rocks about haha, it was mental. To be honest I couldn’t tell you where we went but i know the first bar was called Pontoon and was on the harbour which was so pretty… from here we started doing tequilla and yeah… you can imagine we had a pretty good time! haha

This morning we had our first lie-in of our trip then headed for BONDI Beach this afternoon, off to grab some dinner now then will probably start the party all over again, sweet.

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