Dunja & Leroy Down Under

Surfers, hippies and Brizzies

G'day there dear followers! A new update coming straight from the sunshine state Queensland; Godwin Beach to be exact. We promised a new update once we had enough stuff to talk about. And oh boy, do we! It's always hard to find out where to start, but let's just do it chronologically, picking up where we left off last time at the Railway Square YHA in Sydney. Oh, in case you didn't notice yet, we put the Outback album up just a few days after the last update, so if you haven't checked it out yet, go do so!

Unfortunately our stay in lovely Sydney only lasted for one day. We walked around in Sydney for one last time for the sake of nostalgia. After all, this was probably the last time we were going to see Sydney personally and we were actually kind of bummed about that. In the 3 months we lived in Sydney we really developed a liking, maybe even a little bit of love for it. It feels like 'our' city, our second home. It was inevitable though, at 7 PM on Sunday the 13th we had to catch our Greyhound coach to get to our next stop: Byron Bay. We had a long drive in front of us; we'd be in Byron Bay by 8 AM the next morning but thankfully it was during the night so we did get some sleep in the end, even if just a slightest bit.

Byron Bay is lovely. Though the temperature was high and the humidity was terrible, the laidback and mellow atmosphere of the people living there and the cosy town make up for it. Much to Leroy's joy the climate is a bit tropical which means there are geckos and water dragons found everywhere. In fact, there was a big, fat water dragon living right near the outside area of our hostel, living off the food people give to it (sometimes helping itself ). We named it "Big momma". We only had the morning to get used to the climate, because our next activity was right around the corner: surf lessons!

By the time we got picked up at 1 PM, we were obviously "stoked" to the max! It didn't take long at all until we actually got our surfboards and rushed into the water. Surprisingly, there's not much theory you need to know to surf at all, it's all about practise! We had 5 days worth of surf lessons and thus practise, so needless to say, we turned out to be pretty adequate surfers in the end! Where we spent the first 2 days 'surfing' on little whitewash-waves using ridiculously huge and soft surfboards, we actually switched to smallers surfboards and bigger waves in the last few days. Leroy even got the newest and smallest surfboard "Wavestorm" the last 2 days which seemed to come with a crapload of good luck, surfing a lot of nice waves with it. What else did we do in Byron Bay for those 5 days, other than surf? Absolutely nothing but sleep like bricks! Surfing is incredibly exhausting.

Since there was so much to do in Byron Bay, we decided to stay for 2 more days. We decided to spend the Saturday doing a daytrip to various nice locations near Byron Bay such as the Killen falls and the supposedly biggest gumtree in the Southern hemisphere, which would eventually lead us to the famous hippie town of Nimbin. We found Nimbin to be somewhat dissapointing, though. There are a few funny shops and even 'funnier' people trying to sell you 'special' merchandise scattered all over the one interresting street Nimbin has to offer, but it gets tired after half an hour. Nimbin is higly overrated, for sure. Our Sunday was promising. We planned to go Sea kayaking hoping to spot some dolphins. Kayaking turns out to be quite the exercise in the morning and though we didn't see any dolphins, we snorkeled at a lava reef and did see a lot of green sea turtles and stingrays! Dunja's day got effectively ruined as soon as she got seasick as we went further away from the shore.

All in all we liked Byron Bay. It was a fun, satisfying week and we could go to our next stop without regret: Surfers Paradise. We were only going to stay there for 2 days and there wasn't much on the agenda. Since we had quite the hectic and fanatic week behind us, we just decided to take it easy and enjoy 2 days of absolute laziness. We went to a beach on 'The Spit' the first day, only to sleep for hours. Luckily we woke up right on time to get back to the hostel, since a thunderstorm was coming right at us. Not much else to mention about Surfers Paradise; we had a few relaxing days and our next stop was right around the corner: Brisbane!

Since we didn't really like Melbourne, we were pretty nervous going to Brisbane at first, considering that just like Melbourne, Brisbane is one of the larger cities in Australia. Thankfully, Brisbane turned out to be lovely. The city's really clean in spite of the fact there were floods not too long ago. Our hostel was really luxurious, especially because we had a swimming pool on the rooftop airconditioning in the room! We spent 3 days in Brisbane, relaxing, checking the city out and even meeting up with a long-time Internet friend.

Our next Greyhound bus stop was Caboolture, where we were going to be picked up by some of Leroy's distant relatives which we've been in touch with through Facebook for a while now! Which is where we are still staying at the moment. Escaping the hectic traveling life for a while, we're currently enjoying ourselves relaxing in Godwin Beach, getting in touch with all the offspring and visiting the close beaches in the process. It's good to sleep in an actual bed in your own room after having slept in bunk beds in share dorms for months. We're still not sure yet on how long we're going to stick around, but we'll be having plenty of planning to do soon as we already booked all of the other stuff we're going to do while we're travelling up North along the East Coast. Things we booked are a 4x4 tour on Fraser Island, a sailing tour through the Whitsunday Islands and a scuba diving lesson, along with a lot of nights worth of accommodation in various places.

So, there you go, you're updated again! Until the next time, when we'll have carefully planned everything out and finished enjoying our time relaxing!

From the cold into the desert

G'day there good followers! How ya going? It's been well over 2 weeks so that means it's update time! Our last update was when we returned the crappy camper van of doom to Travelers Autobarn in Melbourne, and checking in to the Melbourne YHA where we were going to stay for little over a week, so let's just pick up where we left off.

Melbourne made a good first impression on both of us as we drove through it with the camper van. Though it's one of the biggest cities in Australia, it certainly doesn't look like one. In fact, it looks rather cosy and there's some unique architecture to be found, both futuristic / abstract and old yet well-maintained. The week, however, went by pretty slowly as Melbourne actually turned out to be quite boring for us. After just a few days we just found ourselves counting down, looking forward to going to Tasmania. In the meantime we tried to avoid the Australian Open as much as possible, which was pretty much the only thing going in in Melbourne. As much as we love doing sports, we hate watching them. And just our luck that Melbourne is all about sports and tournaments...

Our impression of Melbourne got even worse after we got harrassed by homeless people and beggars at one point. There are simply too many of them walking about in Melbourne and that definitely doesn't make it a pleasant city to walk around late in the evening, let alone at night. We did have a good couple of days meeting up with some friends that were near and in Melbourne at the time, and thankfully Melbourne has the St. Kilda beach where we were able to relax when it was hot (it was 42°C in Melbourne at one point!), but to sum it up, we weren't really too impressed with Melbourne itself and were actually kind of glad when it was February. Guess we are more Sydney-people than Melbourne-people!

February 1st was harsh; we had to get up at 3:30 in the morning to get ready and catch the shuttle bus to the Melbourne airport. We were glad we were finally sitting in the airplane and it took off at 7:00 AM. We were exhausted, but got pretty excited as soon as we were flying above Tasmania where we saw nothing but valleys filled with fluffy clouds, surrounded by beautiful mountains. As little as an hour and a half later we had already landed on the tiny Hobart airport and grabbed our heavy backpacks from the one and only baggage claim area. As soon as we grabbed our bags we rushed to the car rental terminals, since we were really curious what kind of car we would be getting. We reached the Hertz terminal where we were getting the car from, and after not even 10 minutes worth of paperwork we were handed a keycord with the car key and a license plate number on it. Oh boy, did we get excited when we found the car to be a nearly brand new Kia Cerato!

We set course for the small and cosy YHA hostel in North Hobart, getting used to and enjoying the car in the meantime. Rather than looking for a camping site every day, we now had 7 vouchers which we could use at any YHA hostel in Tasmania. There are only 5 YHA hostels in Tasmania, but we spent half of the first day in Tasmania planning and figuring out a route, and where we would be going, which wasn't hard as long as we kept the locations of those 5 hostels in mind.

So, how was Tasmania itself? Let's just say everything they say about it is true! The nature there is stunningly beautiful! Simply driving around in Tasmania is an adventurous experience on its own. The landscape is unique, and varies from beautiful lush and green valleys to high, rocky mountains reaching out above the clouds. We often found ourselves driving on roads so high in the mountains, that we saw nothing but thick, white clouds. Wildlife is everywhere! We've seen kangaroos and wallabys in fields, forests and even on beaches. The echidnas aren't afraid to show themselves during the day at all. At one point we were staying in the Cradle Mountain YHA, and the poach next to our dorm was crawling with possums and quolls. We even occasionally spotted a wild emu, though they are quite big, scary and intimidating and don't really like standing still so you can take a picture of them. Unfortunately you'll also find a lot of roadkill while driving around, because of the presence of that much wildlife.

As marvelous as the nature in Tasmania is, there are still some unique places that really stand out which we, of course, checked out. We've been atop of Mt. Wellington, we've walked an hour to reach the viewpoint from where you can see the Wineglass Bay and walked another hour and a half to get to the beach itself, we went to check out the beautiful Bay of Fires, we went to the Henty Sand dunes in Strahan (where we wanted to do sandboarding which we unfortunately had to skip due to rain), and so on. In spite of 2 days of bad weather, we had a most wonderful time in Tasmania and because of that, the 7 days we had flew by as if they were nothing. Come February 8th, we had another busy day in terms of travelling ahead of us as we were going to take 2 flights to our next destination: Alice Springs!

We were quite suprised about the landscape we saw through the airplane window, right before we landed in Alice Springs. Instead of a red desert, it actually looked quite green and there was a lot of vegetation. Even in the middle of the desert it actually rained more than often just like in the rest of Australia for the past months. We arrived pretty late in Alice Springs and got to the hostel much later using a cab because the car battery of the shuttle bus died. Alice Springs itself is a nice village with everything you need but it's definitely not a place where you want to walk around late in the evening unless you really, really have to! Alice Springs is loaded with pushy, angry and agressive "Aboriginees". Don't go outside of your hotel/hostel at night over there unless you want to get robbed.

Thankfully, we only stayed in Alice Springs itself for one night and we had to get up really early again (4:30 AM) because we were going to be picked up. Our 3 day long "Rock Tour" was about to begin! These quickly turned out to be the 3 most fun days we had in Australia until now, by far! We've done pretty much everything there is to do in the "Outback": we hiked through magnificent mountain ranges and canyons, swam in the Garden of Eden, made camp, spent the night under the stars, saw loads of wild animals and creepy bugs, were able to experience the famous "Uluru" up close and did camel riding! Our group turned out to be consisting of awesome people and our tour guide Sam definitely knows his stuff, and how to get a party started! We never wanted this trip to end but alas, it was inevitable that it had to at one point. As a 'goodbye', we went out to the Rock Cafe with the whole group later that evening to grab some dinner and alcoholic beverages. We had another traveling day in front of us so we just had to go to bed at one point. Yet, we were excited since we were about to go back to Sydney! Even if just for a day. After having lived there for over 3 months, it kind of felt like returning home!

And that's where we are now; in Sydney, the Railway Square YHA hostel to be exact. It feels nice to be in a city again where you know your way around. We're glad we actually had our last flight for a while today, after all, flying is pretty exhausting and time consuming. Tomorrow we're going to have an easy, lazy day with no real plans other than just chilling out. At 7 PM we'll be taking the Greyhound bus to Byron Bay where our next promising activity is waiting for us: a 5 day surf camp! In spite of having been in Australia for over 4 months now and going to many, many beaches in the meantime, we have yet to surf at all so we're really looking forward to the surf camp.

Anyway, you know the drill; when the time comes and when we'll have plenty of new stuff to talk about, we'll be posting our next update. Other than the surf camp, we didn't plan anything else ahead so we're just going to see what our next stop is after that. In the meantime, check out the new albums packed with pictures of all the awesomenes we've been soaking up the last few weeks. Pictures of the outback still need to be sorted out so we'll add those later. Until the next update!

Driving from Sydney to Melbourne (and beyond)

Time for another update from the coolest backpackers currently in the land Down Under! After having driven around all over New South Wales and Victoria for 2 weeks, we are currently staying in the Melbourne central YHA until February 1st, when we'll grab a flight to "Tassie". In the past 2 weeks, we've driven a grand total of 3306 kilometers visiting a load of interesting places in the process. Brace yourself for a massive update. Grab a cup of coffee or tea; or even better: a ginger beer! It quickly became Leroy's new favorite liquid refreshment!

Day 1 (Tuesday January 11th)
From Sydney to Royal National Park

Let's start at the beginning, at Tuesday January 11th. The weather was horrible in Sydney. While Dunja stayed at our 'home' in Ultimo, Leroy went to pick up the camper van at Traveler's Autobarn, located all the way in Mascot. Leroy got pretty 'amused' when he found out his brand new creditcard, which he just got all the way from the Netherlands through expensive express mail, didn't work. It's even worse if you consider the amount of e-mails, time, effort and money we spent getting it in the first place. The trouble began when Rabobank somehow suspected fraude with one of Leroy's debit cards after using it on an ATM, and decided to block literally EVERYTHING: debit card, creditcard AND even internet banking. We were hoping all this would've been solved when Leroy finally got his new cards weeks later, but alas... So, not being able to pay with his own creditcard, Leroy wanted to use Dunja's. He was carrying Dunja's passport after all. The slightly annoyed woman at the counter (which we'll henceforth refer to as the "cranky counter woman" ) wouldn't let him; she was pretty much insinuating that Leroy might've stolen the whole bag. Yeah, whatever. Since Leroy was holding on to the bus tickets which he needed to get to Mascot in the first place, he had to all the way back to pick up Dunja, and go back to Mascot again. It was still soaking at the time, which made our day even worse.

Once we both got at Traveler's Autobarn we paid using Dunja's creditcard. Funny enough, the cranky counter woman didn't even verify if Dunja was really Dunja; Leroy might as well have picked up a random girl from the street and pretended it was Dunja. What annoyed us even more was that the total price was more than we had on the original quote (which we already paid a $500 deposit for), and that there were a bunch of other rules such as a 5000 kilometer 'limit' which they didn't tell us about when we visited the Traveler's Autobarn showroom. In the meantime it was already past afternoon (while originally the camper van was to be picked up at 10 AM) and after a load of paperwork and a silly survey, the cranky counter woman finally took us to the back to check our camper van. That was a bit of a dissapointment. The 'deluxe' camper van we were supposed to get didn't seem so 'deluxe'. While it did have all the facilities we needed such as a sink, stove and a refrigerator, the car itself was pretty crappy on its own. It had already driven over 460000 kilometers and was dented, scratched and damaged all over.

Cranky counter woman showed us some paperwork with illustrations of the camper van in different perspectives, with dots that represented damage points all over it. In just a few seconds we already found a few points that were NOT on cranky counter woman's paperwork, and of course she wasn't too enthusiastic to correct it when we pointed that out. When we mentioned that we wanted to take pictures of the camper van, cranky counter woman told us 'not to do that now' since there were other clients waiting inside and she didn't have the time for that. She quickly rushed inside again. Talk about bad service! Oh well, at least we finally got our camper van! We rushed back to our 'home' in Ultimo for the last time to have some lunch, pack the last of our stuff and say goodbye to our housemates. Our real adventure was finally about to begin!

The weather was still horrible in Sydney at the time we left. We set course for the South; first Wollongong and then the Royal National Park. As we got a bit further South the weather got a lot better. Once we did some groceries and reached the Royal National Park we decided to stop for a few wonderful bushwalks. Now we were having fun! After a few exhausting bushwalks, we decided to stop near a camping site to make some dinner and catch some sleep.

Day 2 (Wednesday January 12th)
From Royal National Park to Kiama

After an awesome "brekky" on a lovely and sunny morning, we traveled more Southwards. We visited the Nan Tien Temple and went to see the big blowhole at Kiama. We went to a caravan park in the evening which was right next to a beautiful beach.

Day 3 (Thursday January 13th)
From Kiama to Malua Bay

Horrible start of the day. The weather was terrible again, but we set course for the Mirrawarra Rainforest anyway to do the Fly Treetop Walk. After driving for almost an hour, we ended up the only road to the Fly Treetop Walk, but the ascend was too steep for the crappy camper van to handle! Leroy had a pretty hard time driving, and the weather wasn't getting any better in the meantime! On top of it, we were already driving in the middle of a rainforest and we couldn't even see 10 meters ahead because of extremely thick mist. Eventually, we had to turn around because not even in the first gear, the camper van wasn't able to get any further uphill. Since things were actually getting dangerous and we did NOT want to blow up the camper van's engine, we decided to turn around and go back. We were pretty bummed as we were really looking forward to do the Fly Treetop Walk, but it couldn't be helped. We traveled South again and ended up in the lovely Jervis Bay, which is unfortunately the end of the 'Grand Pacific Drive'. We went to 'camp' a bit ahead on a place called Malua Bay, right next to a beautiful beach.

Day 4 (Friday January 14th)
From Malua Bay to Cann River

The day started with lovely weather. Of course, we went Southbound, but today checking out a lot of places in the process. We went from the pretty known Narooma, to the lovely Tilba Tilba and Central Tilba, then to Bateman's Bay, and eventually made our last stop at Eden. Since we didn't find a good and cheap place to stay with our camper van, we decided to continue driving. After a long and exhausting drive through the Croajingolong National Park, not seeing any civilization for hours, we finally crossed the border to the state of Victoria and ended up at a place called Cann River, where we decided to stay at a camping site and spend the night. At this point, we had not seen ANY new wild animals at all yet. We were really looking forward to see some kangaroos and koalas!

Day 5 (Saturday January 15th)
From Cann River to Paradise Beach

From Cann River, it was yet another long and exhausting drive through hours worth of national parks and forests until we reached a town called Lakes Entrance. We took a pause to do the McKenzie River rainforest walk as well. From Lakes Entrance, we went to Bairnsdale, then Sale, and eventually ended up at a nice camping site near Paradise Beach. Since it was still pretty early, we decided to check out the nearby town called Loch Sport as well, as we read about kangaroos often being seen over there. And how right we were! We saw dozens of them! Even better, we eventually spotted a kangaroo 'family' in a nearby field and it didn't take long until they just approached us and ate bread right out of our hands! We spent over an hour just feeding the kangaroos, an awesome experience! After running out of bread we decided to return to Paradise Beach and spend the night.

Day 6 (Sunday January 16th)
From Paradise Beach to Wonthaggi

We didn't do too much this day. Since the weather was good, we slacked around a lot on some lovely beaches and stopped at some nice, tiny places such as Seaspray. We set course to the West, specifically to Wonthaggi, a semi-big town that used to be a small coal mining village, which was on the route to Melbourne. We ended up too late in Wonthaggi to check out the coal mines so we decided to spend the night at a nearby camping site.

Day 7 (Monday January 17th)
From Wonthaggi to San Reno

The weather was once again horrible. But it didn't matter that much since we were going to do a tour through the coal mines anyway. Since there weren't many people taking the tour that day, we got to take the tour for free! After having checked out the coal mines, we traveled more to the West, reaching the famous Philip Island where you can see Australia's only penguin colony! It was quite expensive to just get inside, and you're not allowed to take any pictures or make videos of the "penguin parade" at all, but it was well worth the money and the long wait! Late in the evening, we saw dozens of cute little penguins come out of the sea to go back to their burrows. An absolutely amazing experience! Added bonus was the playful fur seal that was swimming around for over an hour before the penguins arrived! After watching the penguins we went back to San Reno (the gateway to Philip Island) and spent the night near a camping site. We were really thrilled to have seen both penguins and kangaroos in the wild, but where are those koalas?!

Day 8 (Tuesday January 18th)
From San Reno to Cape Otway

We got up very early this day. As we were already pretty close to Melbourne (just an hour away) and since we still had the camper van until the 24th, we decided to go more Westbound and see the famous Great Ocean Road. We went right through Melbourne, constantly gazing at the impressive skyline, to get through Torquay (a place all about surfing) from where the Great Ocean Road starts. The Great Ocean Road is as impressive as they say indeed! Just the drive itself is amazing, and don't even get us started on the numerous scenic views of lush forests and high cliffs! Obviously, we made a lot of stops, but to name a few more popular ones: Lorne, the Anglesea golf course (with resident kangaroos!), Erksine waterfalls, Teddy's lookout and Apollo Bay. We randomly ended up at a camping site in the middle of a forest, near Cape Otway. We couldnt believe our eyes when we saw a koala chilling out in the tree right next to where we parked the camper van! Since it was quite high up in a tree, we decided to do some bushwalking in the hopes of seeing more koalas, possible not as high up in the trees as the first one. We've seen so many koalas that evening, that we're not even amazed by them anymore!

Day 9 (Wednesday January 19th)
From Cape Otway to Portland

We got up early on this beautiful morning to continue driving on the Great Ocean Road. But not after we did the Otway Fly Treetop Walk! Since it was right around the corner and we had to skip the Mirrawarra Fly Treetop Walk on the third day, we just had to do it. Leroy, who's afraid of heights, almost shat himself on the 47 meter high tower which moved as the wind blew. We then continued along the Great Ocean Road seeing yet another bunch of iconic places, such as the Twelve Apostles and Loch Ard George. After a long and exhausting drive we decided to call it a night, and stay at a tiny camping site in Portland.

Day 10 (Thursday January 20th)
From Portland to Cape Otway

At this point, we were hoping to go even more Westbound to Robe and even Adelaide, but decided not to since we'd get short on time, and it'd be too exhausting for Leroy since he'd be driving for the whole day. Instead, we decided to go to the absolutely beautiful beach at Cape Bridgewater and spend some hours there. We then set course back to the East again, back to the Great Ocean Road. After a long drive we decided to spend the night again at the camping site near Cape Otway, where we stayed earlier and saw the koalas. Of course, we didn't mind the koalas much at this point anymore as we already saw dozens of them. The night did get quite 'adventurous' when Leroy had to go to the bathroom and became good friends with a very curious possum, and spotted the most humongous moth he'd ever seen.

Day 11 through 13 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday January 21st, 22nd and 23rd)
From Cape Otway to Melbourne and surroundings

We slowly continued to make our way to Melbourne taking the lovely Great Ocean Road again on the way back. We went to see some spots on the Great Ocean Road which we skipped or just didn't notice when we got through the first time. We stayed close to Melbourne, and slowly started packing our bags again during the last day.

Day 14 (Monday January 24th)
Melbourne

Not much to mention for this day, as we had to return the camper van to Traveler's Autobarn before 1 PM. We got up early, had a nice breakfast, changed the camper van's layout back to normal and cleaned it. Leroy dropped Dunja at the hostel and went to return the camper van.

Conclusion

Just driving around in Australia is an awesome experience. We were often baffled by the beautiful flora and fauna that can be found anywhere, especially in one of the many enourmous national parks you get to drive through. Driving around with a rented camper van, however, does have it's disadvantages. For starters, it's really expensive. Just renting the camper van costs quite a lot of money already, especially if you use 'Protection Plus' packages which we did, which basically means you're just paying a few hundreds of dollars bond rather than a few thousands. It does however increase the daily rate. Knowing how evil these kind of companies can be, we did go for a Protection Plus package as we don't want to lose thousands of dollars for 'damage' we didn't cause! After all, the camper van we got was really old, and majorly damaged and dented all over before we even boarded it.

Something we majorly underestimated were the enormous distances between towns / cities. We found ourselves running nearly out of fuel a couple of times in the middle of nowhere. Always stocking up on fuel whenever you pass a fuel station, even if your tank is still half full, is recommended. Another problem with the great distances is that you'll be driving a lot to reach one point from another, meaning you'll have to refuel a lot, thus spending a lot of money just on fuel.

The most tedious thing we experienced, however, is looking for camping sites and/or caravan parks to spend the night. Especially affordable ones! Some days we were lucky and found a nice, powered camping site for just 10 or 20 dollars, but there were days that we spent hours looking for a camping site, only to end up at one that charged over $60 just for an umpowered camping site to park the camper van! When you already spent loads of money just for renting the camper van, refueling and groceries, the last thing you want to do is pay money just to be allowed to park your camper van on a patch of dirt. Thankfully we didn't need to recharge our battery or refill our water tank every day, so quite often we would just park somewhere nice and quiet, not on a camping site or in a caravan park. That's for free after all!

All in all we had an awesome 2 weeks and we're not complaining. Yes, it did cost a lot of money, but we got to see a lot of iconic places, we encountered (and even fed) loads of wildlife and we really enjoyed the 'freedom' of being able to go everywhere, anywhere and whenever we wanted. We do encourage everyone else to rent a camper van / car and just explore the great land Down Under. You'll get to see and experience things you won't when you just take 'organised' tours and trips. We will, however, start taking more 'organised' tours and packages that come with accommodation from now on as that won't hurt our wallets as much. For example, we found some great deals for surfcamps and diving lessons with accommodation, and those two things are still on the agenda! We'll be taking more packages from YHA travel from now on, since those are quite affordable as we get great discounts for them.

Time to wrap this massive update up, before it becomes even more lengthy than it already is. We'll be staying in Melbourne until February 1st now, and from what we've already seen from Melbourne when we drove right through it a couple of times, we're sure that we'll enjoy our stay. We'll be taking it easy in Melbourne, looking forward to driving around in Tasmania. When that's over with, we'll most likely post another update! Until then! Oh yeah, don't forget to check out our new album.