FALLS CREEK MA BOIII

Today was pretty grand!
Steve's uncle is a great host and is generous to the point where I'm planning on how to thank him. But there's one thing that i don't like, and that's these damn mountain roads.

Forget needing to poop, i needed a new....body. God damn I've never felt more carsick in my life.

Soooooo the trip was to Falls creek err which is...hmm

Like... there? Maybe?
About there, give or take a few pixels of awesome PAINT mapping.

The road is like it was created by your drunk uncle chasing some 18 year old ass at a wedding reception, on the way i managed to not hurl. Which was good...i guess. Lilly wasn't so impressed, i think the pressure stuff that makes your ears pop annoyed her, and who knows maybe she was carsick too?

Wouldn't blame her.

I wish I'd been able to take more photos of the trip... there was a absolutely gorgeous town in the basin of the mountains with European trees and set right on the river, my god. But you know, the choice was fiddle with the digicam and possibly hurl all over myself or you know...not hurling.

So i took a couple pictures while we were stuck behind a truck instead, I'm sorry they're pretty shitty.

Just kidding, I'm not sorry, fucking appreciate it bitch!!!

So yeah that's like, a inch from the road, you miscalculate and you go for a nice ride a few thousand meters down.

NICE.

Naw but it'd be pretty if you didn't have the sickness...i guess. Even remembering it now i get that twist in my belly... URGH.

At allllmost the top of all this is Falls Creek.
Its kind of beautiful in a creepy way since the bushfire's 3/4 years ago left all the trees dead and a brilliant white, unable to recover because they were within the snow line, so the peak is now constantly white...and...sharp? I'm probably one of the very few people that think a bunch of dead things could possibly hold any beauty, but there you go. We had lunch at a ski lounge there, i wont lie the food was below average, but i guess I'm fussy since i cook myself.

The picture of the dead trees i took as you can see isn't great looking and could even pass for shrubs for the shitty focus i used, its a shame because you could get some amazing pictures of them I'm sure, but i swear ill never go up there again unless i find a remedy to the car sickness.

After lunch we were taken to the top of the mountain, which if you have a 4wheel drive is accessible without hiking, just you know....fucking terrifying. Luckily i felt too queasy to care, at times the way i slumped in my seat the seat belt would lock up and half choke me and id hope id pass out.
However, the view from the top was pretty special so I'm glad i didn't!

In case you're wondering it was really rather warm up there, she just enjoys hats and coats...but not shoes. After these pictures we encouraged her into some boots and we walked around the top of this mountain, and sadly my cameras batts died before i could get anymore photos, so of course me being me i start looking at rocks. Maybe id find a cool one to take home.
I found some quartz and diamondy shiny things, pretty amazing. I could go to a jewelry place and have the stones cut out and used too, which...yeah i think I'll do that actually.
Here's a pic i took of em when i got home and charged my cam

I'm obviously talking about the Quartz by the way, the shiny rocks are just...shiny...rocks. As far as i know. You can tell in this photo but in the sun they sparkle like diamonds which is pretty bad ass as far as rocks go.

I wont lie, the drive home was hideous. I brought up the lunch id had, twice. And smelt like a old sick dog by the end of it. So gross.

I have some travel sickness tablets for tomorrow, fingers crossed they actually work, because i have 30Min's more of this torture coming up.

Holiday!!!!!

Over packing is what I'm best at, 1 huge suitcase, 3 medium bags and about 3 smaller ones. The bathroom supplies themselves were in one huge bag, to be honest
I have no idea how it all fit, but it did.....kinda.
Steve packed the xbox just in case we were robbed, the most valued item in our home is a gaming console... ?!
Couldn't help but wish we'd left it at home to distract a thief from my antique geisha doll... Then again petty thieves are stupid, so I'll hang my hopes on them having no idea whats valuable..

Crap.
I knew he should have let me pack up the entire house!!

A few minutes from home or rather 7 or so Beatles hits later, there was charred hills and mountains and burnt out trees. Couldn't help but cringe when we saw little homes surrounded by charred earth and black trunked trees. Even the plants in the nature strip on the highway were mostly black. It was almost beautiful with red and orange autumn leaves decorated with black and white and a sprinkle of fresh new green.

I tried to take photos but i was too busy staring or taking pictures of my... hands, and i maintain it was on purpose.

Whats more awesome than bushfire's??

The toilets in a small pullover we stopped at, That's what.
For some reason i had the urge to take my camera in with me;
( weird i know but how can you read this blog and not already expect it ) What can i say, i struck gold when i closed the door and saw this
In case you need help
"Guy seeks Descrete Meets Leave Details"
I think its safe to say thats you know you've hit rock bottom when you're looking for sex at a backwater country female public toilet.
But hey, you gotta at least appreciate the fact the guy used his best handwriting and even spelt everything correctly...

So after i took the picture, laughing at the stupidity of it.
I realized.....there was a reply.

"Shannon is interested. Game if you are! CALL ME - 043264- Like to give and get head"

I apologize for the flash flare, for those
who wanted that entire phone number and I'm sure there are many, but there was a woman in the stall next to me and my digital camera isn't quiet at all, so as i took happy snaps in the public toilets at some point i encountered shame enough to try and at least not take a long time with my being perverted.
That being said... Maybe
I'm not in touch with the dating scene nowadays, or maybe Ive just found out where bogans come from.
Either way, I'm pretty sure I'm calling Shannon tonight, she/he sounds like a quality....person, especially if hes a guy, and is using female toilets.

The rest of the trip was amazing, the hills turned into mountains and they just got bigger and more beautiful. Of course i was the only one who really cared and the kid wasn't pleased at all after the third or so hour, and so "Bear" was fed some bottled water, thus earning a wind blowing.
Wind blowing you ask? Oh its nothing, just me looking like a massive tool as i held a fluro pink care bear by the neck and hung it out the window while the 110 kilometer wind "dried" it.
Oh right 110 km, what the hell is that? What douche decides its now safe to add ten km to the speed limit, and why only 10? Why even bother? Is 100 just not good enough now? Have to go that extra 10 for the massive adrenaline rush, nothing says bad ass like driving 110 I'm sure. 100? Pffft, you pussy.

I know i already said the trip was beautiful, but until you've made the trip here you cant understand just why saying it once isn't enough.

Photos can only do so much, but im sure i spent a good portion of my time snapping up pictures. I'm shocked the batteries aren't flat..

Eventually we started getting into towns, each one prettier and more quaint than the next.
The streets are lined with red, yellow and green trees forming huge canopies over the roads, the shops are all tiny and painted in the same colour scheme, dark green and Autumn colours to reflect the beautiful nature they re built into.
It was seriously surreal, almost like you'd stepped into a movie, everything was so....perfect. Hoping to stop and have a coffee at some of these places so i can photograph just how amazing it is.
In the meantime you'll have to make do with these in-the-car pictures. Not bad considering i had a open laptop with directions on my lap =)

The road into Mt Beauty reminds me of The Great Ocean Road, only...if TGOR had a older brother who worked out... yeah that'd be this road. The turns were not only insane but elevated so that your entire body moved with the car.
Beautiful...but scary as hell. Parts of the road had less than a inch around them before a drop so steep i couldn't even see the bottom. Glad i don't drive... Steve enjoyed it though, as did Lilly.
Me? Well it made me need to poop.
Ha! Poop or hurl, i couldn't decide which i wanted to do more. The reward of the lookout however was well worth it.
The picture certainly doesn't do it justice, but i was being rushed baby and fiance weren't so Kean on stopping so close to our destination.

There is video, however its mangled with audio of me stumbling around and telling them ILL BE BACK IN A MINUTE.
Somehow i don't think this will mirror the imagery.

SO lets finally get down to the place were staying.
I wasn't expecting a lot i guess, but even i had been, nothing...Nothing i could have dreamt up would be more amazing than this. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Yeah.... Lounge room. This is one of three ceiling to wall windows that look out onto the Mountains.
These were taken on the back Patio. Only two steps or so from the doorway in case you think i zoomed in on those Mountains or walked closer...I didn't.
Can you imagine how beautiful this must be when it snows?!




The whole trip overall so far has been fairly smooth. Of all bags to forget, i forgot to pack our toiletries bag...which sucks because all my hair products and straighteners were inside.
So if you wanted pictures of me... Good luck with that. I don't even have make up, or my normal moisturizer, i know i know. Princess syndrome, but you try having kids and being naturally beautiful!!

So all up this is day One.
Tomorrow we trek over to Falls Creek.
Updates coming =)

xxx