Somewhere in Australia.... looking for kangaroos

So we have left successfully Adelaide and started our long journey to Melbourne and to Sydney in our new homely campervan "ABBA". We got kind of a decent theme on it, after exchanging it for a "cocky" topic, which might have been offensive to some people:) It is a very basic but as well a great car (it is ours afterall) and it will be our 5star hotel on the 4000km long journey (it is nice change though to all the unpacking and packing back of our backpack everyday).

So where to go first? That was a very easy question and we were heading to the oldest German village in Australia:) no we are not crazy, but this little touristic village Hahndorf was on our way through lovely wineries (but French route de vin is obviously better) and it was on the way to one of the beaches we really wanted to see. (und nur so am Rand, in diesem Dorf hat niemand aber wirklich niemand Deutsch gesprochen, nur ein Paar von den verlorenen und sentimentalen deutschen Touristen und ein Paar Kinder in der Grundschule, die ein Paar Plakaten fuer den Dorf vorbereitet hatten - German class is over - Ende)

The beach was excellent with amazingly clean and transparent water with dolphins not far away of the shore! They were just there, we didn't have to pay any dolpin watching or swimming with dolphins tour - they were just there. We should have learned from this experience and not to pay a quided tour for penguins' parade in Victor's Harbour. The penguins were in some weird phase of their life and in an hour, for 11 australian dollars EACH! We have seen 4, yes 4 whole penguins - in a very cold and rainy weather (the rest of them were hidden God knows where), but I have to say that they were really sweet! When we are already at the animal topic, I must say that there are lots of signs around the roads. Apparently there are lots of koalas, kabgaroos or roos by the streeet, but i think that it is another tourist attraction:) Oh yes, we have seen animals - koalas, kangaroos, wombats,possums... But unfortunately all of them were dead, lying on the side of the street (as I am writing this entry on our way, waiting to catch a wireless and upload the blog - things might change, as we are currently in the small town Healesville in Yarra valley, with our coutch servers and will go to sanctuary, with all the strange australian creatures - but like this things are not explained properly). To not to bore you for more longer I will make the explanation quicker.

Next day we continued on driving towards the great ocean drive, but we stopped for a night in Mt. Gambier witha Blue Lake. The colour of the water was so blue, that I didn't believe that it is natural. It looked like someone painted it. We woke up the next day with a very strange noise. It was like a spaceship sending its signals to the space, or a robot talking (my mind and thoughts went crazy - yes, it is happenning, the E.T.'s exist and they chose our caravan to take us with them!) when I opened the curtains, I saw a lovely black and white bird "singing":) it was the most strange birds singing I have ever heard (I promise not to complain about our lovely birds at home ever again:)

The great ocean drive is fantastic. Cliffs, lovely views, beautiful colours, buses with Japanese tourists:) We took our time and stopped almost at each view point, to satisfy my japanese genes and to take dozens of photos. We are passing Melbourne, staying overnight in Phillip Island and going to see Healesville, where we met Ruth & Toni, who kindly offered us their place to stay. They have a lovely house, with great garden and terasse and we talked and talked about travelling as they are preparing their 6 months long travel to Europe!
We will be heading to Sydney and hopefully before I will have the possibility to upload our blog and the photos.

But before I finish for today I hope that all of you are familiar with Skippy the bush kangaroo, as he is the one I am looking for. He is the most intelligent kangaroo and the best friend of all the girls and boys, he understands how we speak and we understand his language - he is a big help but as well a great friend to play with. So wait for the next stories, may be I will meet him soon:)