Twelve Apostles

Trust us to visit Australia when they are having a heat wave. The temperature was 44 degrees today and absolutely unbearable. 

The air-con in the car is a God-send.  We stopped for a short walk around part of the rain forest. It was really nice and smelled wonderful and there was lots of forest noises! 

Much to our disappointment, we haven’t seen any koala bears or kangaroos in the wild yet. We haven’t ventured very far for very long due to the heat although we made an effort for the Twelve Apostles. We walked down lots of steps to a beach where we could photograph two of the rocks, which seem to soar out of the sea. I had sandals on and the sand was scorching hot, so I didn’t stay long!

We are staying tonight at a place called Warrnambool. The place isn’t very exciting and we went for a walk to a market near to the sea front. The beaches here are nice but no sun beds or umbrellas anywhere. The hotel is ok. It’s clean and cool but not a patch on yesterdays. The man on reception was very nice and gave us 2 hour’s Wi-Fi free. Every little helps! We’re finding everything so expensive. We stopped ealier and bought a couple of bottles of water – 7 dollars (that’s about £4.50, which would have cost about £1.50 in the UK). We found a supermarket and bought 12 bottles of exactly the same water and paid $9.98 – so WARM water it is from now on!