To make up for lost blogging

So I didn't post much at all at the beginning of my time here in Melbourne, so I'll be making up for it a little.  This weekend I went down the Great Ocean Road, which is a winding road that overlooks cliffs of the South Pacific Ocean and a rainforest on the other side.

The  rain forest actually is home to the mountain ash which is reportedly larger even the the california redwoods, but the largest trees were harvested by early settlers.  The remaining trees were pretty impressive though.

There were more koalas as well in the forest, but none of the pictures rival the hard copy I have of me feeding one.  Since it's a hard copy though it will have to wait until August to be scanned in and showed around.

The 12 apostles are these really cool landforms that are caused by the rock eroding and collapsing.  There were originally 16 according to natives, 12 when early settlers found them and now only 7 (the last one fell down in 2005).  

London's Bridge was a really cool landform with a great story.  It was called London's bridge years ago, but in 1950 part of it fell down and really gave the nursery rhyme a new meaning.  However when it fell down there was a couple that was out on the far platform and they got stuck for hours.  The best part though, is that the guy told his boss he was sick and was staying home.  And also told his wife that he had to stay late at work...  They were on national TV and he lost his wife and his job!

We had a party afterwords to say goodbye to one of our friends who's heading back to Germany.  She actually lives in Regensburg, Miguel!  Not many pictures survived...