Nearly 5000km later ....

..... we're home from our trip to Melbourne and Adelaide.

In the next couple of weeks I will post more photos of various areas we visited, but just for now here is a mini travelogue between home and Adelaide.

On the road to the Yarra Valley.

Tesselars Bulb Farm in the Dandenong Ranges.

The Yarra River from the Swanston St. Bridge, Melbourne. Taken on the way to the State Theatre for the opera, Fledermaus.

The Sorrento to Queenscliff Ferry crossing Port Phillip Bay. Two ferries run in opposite directions every hour, 12 hours a day, all year round. The 40 minute trip saves many kms of city travelling across Melbourne.

Quaint hotel in Queenscliff.

Lorne, a popular holiday town on the Great Ocean Road.

The coast at Lorne.

Along the twisting Great Ocean Road, skirting the cliffs.

A sign that could mean the difference between life and death on this narrow, winding road.

But not all of the Great Ocean Road skirts the coast; much of it runs through beautiful farmland and tall bushland.

Loch Ard Gorge, near Port Campbell, named after a famous shipwreck. (More on that in coming days.)

'The Razorback'

Tower Hill Nature Reserve near Warrnambool.

Emus.

Thousands of birds nest in the cliffs at Tower Hill, an extinct volcano.

Port Fairy.

Wind farms between Port Fairy and Portland.

Overlooking the Portland Harbour from our lunch stop.

The Blue Lake at Mt. Gambier, South Australia.

Mt. Gambier.

Mid 19th Century home of famous Australian poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, at Port McDonnell.

Approaching sunset over the Coorong, Meningee, South Australia.