The Search for Ramsden Cave
There's an old story that gets referred to as the 'Myth of Ramsden Cave' where a farmer that was tracking down one of his lost goats ended up finding a huge cave along the Great Ocean Road.It's said that Ramsden Cave is somewhere between Apollo Bay a...
Celebrating 100 Years of the Great Ocean Road!
Today marks the day of exactly 100 years since construction began on the worlds largest war memorial: the Great Ocean Road. On the 19th of September 1919 using nothing but hand tools and dynamite, 3,000 men, including 2,700 returned soldiers began...
We ditched a lot of old blog posts & rebuilt backpackingandtravel.com!
We've decided to rebuild backpackingandtravel.com so that we can post more often and with ease, allowing us to bring you more content and a better managed online camping store. When migrating from one website platform to another, we decided to lea...
Day trip to for a small cliff jump at The Pillars Mount Martha
Squeezing the most out of summer at the Pillars! Today we woke wondering what we could do that's close to Melbourne and involves getting in the water, to get the very most out of summer before it starts getting cold again. We decided to hea...
Jumping into the Little Blue
We spent three nights and three full days in the bottom corner of South Australia at the Pippi Shack. While we were there, we went to the Little Blue Lake, Mount Gambier which is a sink hole that's about 50 metres across with edges upto 6-7 metr...
Snorkeling through a natural spring near Mt Gambier
After traveling the Great Ocean Road, in Summer 2018, we went ended up in Mount Gambier, South Australia and stayed at the Pippi Shack, which is a beach cabin right on Brown Bay, Eight Mile Creek. A few minutes drive down a dirt road that starts just...
Skydiving over Melbourne
My birthday came around and Eva surprised me with a voucher to go Sky Diving over Melbourne, landing in Saint Kilda. To my surprise, Eva bought herself a ticket and came along for the jump. Throwing on our outfit and harness brought on the ...
We didn’t picnic at Hanging Rock
A lot of the places that we visit requires a long drive and an overnight stay, but today we wanted to go and visit somewhere that we've never been and is close to Melbourne, seeing as this is where we're based at the moment.Recently, we started watch...