I'm sitting in the middle of the Otway rainforest at the end of a successful car touristing day. This morning we woke up in Wye River, much more comfortable than the previous night, thanks to our new mattress and doona. Fueled by good coffee and a pide we headed for the koalas in Kennet River. They were very easy to find, apparently there's 1800 of them in the area. We saw 5. And a million King Parrots who were extremely interested in our breakfast and coffee. After the initial feeling of being in an exotic version of Hitchcock's Birds I was happy to let them wonder all over me. We have the pictures to prove it, but they'll have to wait.

We went through Apollo Bay and Marengo, Jules' old stomping grounds (more photos) on the way to the Rainforest Walk, which we shared with 3 buss-loads of tourists. It was pretty damn good though, I reckon the 200 or so photos we got from the 800 meter walk should show some of that. It was a tree fern rain forest, with some huge karri-like oaks. Next up was the the treetop walk. We decided to do the naughty and take the shortcut up an unsealed road. I'm glad we did! We got to drive through even more rain forest, and came upon a forest of huge Redwood trees which had been planted there in the 1930s. It was made even even better by having the Aire River going through it, with Mountain Ash growing at the opposite side. That gave us the two tallest growing trees in the world next to each others. Shannon fell in love with the place, and I did my quarterly Tai-Chi session among the giants. We spent so long there, and were so happy with everything we'd seen that we decided to give the tree-top walk a miss. We went straight for the Beauchamp falls camping area, imagining it would be another highlight. It turned out a bachelor party had the same idea. Which is why we are now at The Triplet Falls picnic area, blogging, reading, drinking beer and eating chips. We even did a quick walk through the rain-forest, nature walk, waterfalls circuit here as well. And apparently there are platypus here! We didn't see any, but I'm pretty sure they saw us. Life is good.