Melbourne to Alice Springs - 3 days - 31st of May to 2nd June 2008

After my 2 hours sleep, I wake up in a rush at 6.00 am instead of 5.30am forcing me to take a cab to my pick up point.
Starting my tour at 7am, I hope on the bus, make myself comfortable despite the bus being freezing cold and get a few minutes nap in the first 2 hours we drive outside of Melbourne towards Surf City. Located just a few minutes before the Great Ocean Road, it's a good spot to purchase any brand clothing (surf brands) such as Rip Curls, Quicksilver and so...
It's also the occasion to meet up with the rest of the people travelling with me on this tour... so we are 11: 1 NZ: Greame, 1 Switz: Daniel, 1 Honk Kong: Sharon, 1 Germany: Korina, 1 English: Alistaire, 2 Deutshe: Paul & Lilia, 1 Korea and 1 Japan, whom I forgot their names (sorry girls), 1 Japan Miji and meee :D.
We started our Great Ocean Road drive, stoped at a few picture spot such as a sign we are entering the Great Ocean Road, a few nice beaches with great waves... home of the surfers, a bit later on we also stoped to see some koalas.. Those little cute things don't give much of a show as they sleep all day long and the only reason they would move would be to change their position to sleep or eat a few leaves from the Gumtrees where they are sleeping. In the Afternoon we stopped in the rainforest of Otway National Park before heading for sunset over the 12 apostles, we were really lucky we get a real multicolored sunset: pink, orange and purple colors :D
The following day we did a few stop at some rock and cliffs formation such as London Bridge, Bay of Islands, Bay of Martyrs and the Lorch Ard Cave, a story involving a ferry sanking in the 19th century and only 2 survivors who staied for a few days in this cave. I also did a helicopter ride over the 12 apostles which was actualy very amazing, first helicopter ride hopefully not last, I got a great great view and some nice pics :D
In the afternoon, we climbed the Pinnacle for 1 and 1/2 hour to get a splendid view over the Grampians :D.
On our last day we woke up really early to get a good sunrise over the Grampians, walked down to have a better look on the Mackenzie walk and finally did a bit of exercise and climbed Hollow Mountain... another 5 hours drive was waiting for us in the afternoon till we could get to Adelaide, we stopped a few times on the way checked out some Emu and walabis and also some Albinos Kangooroos.
This tour was pretty cool, the Great Ocean Road is certainly a thing not to be missed when you get to Asutralia, it's really pretty I wish I had done it during summer time though. My group were really nice and I was lucky I had Paul my drinking buddy to help me finishing those 4 litres of goone on the second night :D
Once we arrived in Adelaide I volounteered to cook dinner for the rest of the bus, Chicken Curry and Mango which cost each of us only $2 and we all were very full after it :D
Adelaide was alright, unfortunately I was pretty tired from those 3 days so didn't get to see much I walked around for a while and ended up playing pool for the rest of the day.. We also experienced something pretty strange for a Tuesday night, apart from McDonalds there is almost noway you can get cheap food in this city after 10PM .. for some weird reason the supermarket would close at 9pm to reopen at midnight... strange strange :D
Anyway a day is never enough to get a good idea on a city and I was more focused on what was waiting for me next....