Over half way

Melbourne

What’s better Perth to Adelaide or Adelaide to Melbourne? That was the question I was asked by Dim and Si the other day. Honestly, I couldn’t say.

Between Perth and Adelaide there wasn’t a high population. We went to bed when it got dark and woke up when it got light. We stayed in an incredible amount of varied accommodation and appreciated all the scenery. From flatlands and cliffs to roads that went on for miles and miles and miles. There were copious amounts of wildlife, both dangerous and harmless. Everyone, except for Bev, got bitten by something or other. We arrived in Ceduna in perfect time for the Oyster Festival. Dave became the first man to skate across the Nullabor. Dave impaled his foot the same day he completed his skate across Adelaide city.
This is only a trifle of the happenings during this time!

Between Adelaide and Melbourne the population picked up. We learnt how to maximise the fundraising and took advantage of the people we were now surrounded by. We went to bed later, after going fundraising and started waking up when necessary. Bev got bitten to shreds in Adelaide! The skating days were filled with more traffic and less kilometres. Each day, a new scene. Rainforest, farmland, lakes, sea and beaches. We started learning to surf after picking up our REALWINGS and surf boards.

And now, we’ve been taken in, yet again, by kind souls. A lady we met near Wellington who offered to put us all up in her home has been our saviour. Due to U2 and John Mayer playing in Melbourne this weekend we’ve been unable to get accommodation. Also we’ve got our new team member ‘the hatwell’ or ‘hatters’ coming out and joining us later on tonight. We’re all going to the airport to pick her up later.

Tomorrow we’re going to a Victoria Skate comp so we can do lots of fundraising.

On Monday we’re hopefully meeting up with Alan Fletcher…Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours.
Then setting off again to Sydney at some point next week.

Sorry the blog is brief!