Nes' house shot at 18mm
And the inside of the house at 18mm
Barwon Heads - mangrove boardwalk. Barwon Heads is the village connected to Ocean Grove (where Nes lives)
Nes in a 4x4.
Point Lonsdale. 10 minutes from Ocean Grove, more towards the tip of the peninsula.
The next day: Ocean Grove nature reserve
Afghan woman in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Copyright Getty Images).
Ocean Grove beach
Flying my kite in the suburbs around Ocean Grove beach.
Preparing BBQ
Thacker Street (where Nes and Sander live).
Walk around Otway national park. This is around 45 minutes drive from Ocean Grove via the Great Ocean Road.
Tree ferns
Surfers in Lorne
Sunny day in Lorne
Wild kangaroos at the Anglesea golf course
Bees at Tina's parents' place
Marine Discovery Centre where Nes works
The other side of the MDC
On the train to Melbourne
Southern Cross station
Old melbourne trams (only the circle trams are the old ones though)
Inside the state library
Typical Melbourne street
Flinders station
Federation Square (the Times Sq. of Melb.)
Shrine of Remembrance. The Aussies are as patriotic as the yanks..
Belgian beer at the Belgian beer garden
View from the holiday house of Vanessa's friend Tina at Moggs Creek (Great Ocean Road)
We stayed here from Friday night until Sunday.
Hunting for Koalas
Great Ocean Road
View over Apollo Bay
Maits Rest rain forest walk
Parker Inlet
The beach around Moggs Creek
The holiday house is just off of Old Neuk Road.
Back to Melbourne again: Luna Park in St Kilda
St Kilda is an area lose to the bay and with lots of European cake shops
Again... typical Melbourne street
Fountain outside the Royal Exhibition Hall
Lighthouse near Aireys Inlet - where Vanessa will be giving tours. As a result we received a free tour.
We didn't make it to the Twelve Apostles, but we saw the 'Thirteenth Apostle' in front of the lighthouse.
Inside the lighthouse.
View from the lighthouse. A 'controlled' bush fire can be seen on the horizon.
Soon the smoke obscured the sun.
Visit to Ballarat - a town which played a pivotal role in the gold digging days. Now it's just a provincial town.
Cafe Bibo in Ballarat - "This retro cafe is lined with copies of 1960s Womens Weekly magazines and shelves of decorated cups belonging to the regulars." (Lonely Planet)
Portia is underwhelmed at the Ballarat art gallery.
In Ballarat, there's Lake Wendouree, where the rowing events for the 1956 Melbourne olympics were held.
In the last decade or so, the lake has dried up due to the drought.
The boat houses are now useless.
Mural at the Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Ballarat.
At the Serendip animal sanctuary - close to Geelong.
Spooky walk through the Brisbane Ranges (it burned down three years ago).
A walk through a ghost town called Stieglitz. Once home to 15,000 inhabitants during the gold rush days, but now only a few people and houses remain.
Dry landscapes in the interior of Victoria.
Our last night - spent at a bayside cafe in Geelong.
View of the bay.
