This was one of the most amazing trips I've
never done. The trip was planned up for go to watch Open Australia matches,
specifically, the fort best. Despite that, we use the tip for realize the
famous Great Ocean Road and visit some "penguins" in Philip Island.
The flight from Sydney to Melbourne airport
took about two hours and a half. Naoki (my Japanese ex-room-mate) and Pogan
(friend of him) together with Victor (from Barcelona) and me rented the minivan
while the time that Victor "two" (friend of Victor) and his
girlfriend Sandra arrived. It was a huge car and it was enough for spend three
days travelling across all the cost.
Yet the first day we started the trip,
driving through amazing landscapes and getting away the Rip Curl competition
beach. Fortunately we could take a rest doing a great barbecue in Apolo Bay. In
my opinion that was the best place of the trip. Basically, it was a
"backpacker-hostel" in the middle of the dessert with incredible
views to the sea with all the quietness of the world. Of course, that we did the typical bonfire in
the middle of the sand playing songs with the guitar.
It's pretty difficult If I would say that
the second day was worse than the first one, because we contemplated Koalas
sleeping on the trees (because they don't do anything more...just sleep and eat
some leafs...), and we witnessed the sunset in the amazing Twelve Apostles.
ohhh!! yes yess yeahh! and I wouldn't like
to forget about the best free jumping competition from the highest wharf ever
seen in Port Campbell where we didn't agreed about the winner but we can say
that Naoki did the riskiest jump ever, so that, he had painful in his neck and
chest during all the night... (Unfortunately
I don't have the video).
Going ahead to the next day and a half
(until we arrived to Melbourne) were the worst moments during the trip. The
reasons are:
·
We travelled for more than 8
hours by car, but the problem was that the temperature outside the car was 45
degrees.
·
We arrived to Philip Island
starving and really tired about the trip, although we didn't be sleepy and,
furthermore, it was an island with nothing interesting to do...
·
The next day when we went to
see the cute penguins that we had seen in the pictures, we realized that It was
built a similar Port Aventura attraction and it costed 25 $ just how the
fucking penguins leave from the sea to enter in their dens. And the most
incredible was that "all" that performance from 30 metres from
them. Obviously that we decided to don't
pay and we didn't see them (as a Spanish guys we tried to skip the wire fence
but it was impossible, and also one worker caught us hahaha).
We arrived to Melbourne leaving the car on
time, although we were really frightened because we delivered it with a small
hole in the boot (a small crash against a light post), nothing special that
they didn't realized because we keep the boot open up.
Definitely in Melbourne, in the backpacker,
with a lot of things, monuments and streets to visit, but with the mainly thing
to do…. go to watch the Australia Open Tennis. Basically it was what we did during these
three – four days. We spent two days around the huge and immense facilities and
the different stadiums such Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena. Furthermore we
could watch as important players as Nadal, Djokovic, Wawrinka, Sharapova,
William… Obviously, all of us, we enjoyed like a children despite the fact that
we were holding up almost 45 degrees temperature.
About Melbourne, we could enjoy beautiful places
such St. Kilda beach and bars, an enormous night market with live music and all
kind of food, an amazing rooftop bar with 360` views and the walkway river.
