More Driving Adventures!

Sorry guys, it's been a while since we last updated you. This past weekend we did a bit of driving to warm-up for our New Zealand 1500 mile, 6 day campervan marathon starting this weekend!

Anyway, we drove through the beautiful Mornington Peninsula, along the southern coast of Victoria to Wilsons Promontory National Park. After shipping our tent and sleeping bags over here, we thought we should use them at least once, so we camped near the beach about an hour from the park. It was a beautiful setting and we took a stroll along the beach before heading to bed--it was so peaceful and still, something we haven't really seen here at night yet! During the night we heard all sorts of frogs, birds, and other wildlife. The next morning we continued on our way and drove to the park where we saw more wildlife (see new pictures and videos) and took a few short hikes before continuing on back home. On the way back we drove through Gippsland, beautiful green countryside of rolling hills and cattle ranches. We kept thinking, this is gorgeous--we couldn't think of any place like it back in the States.

The past few weeks have been pretty busy, and filled with plans to make sure we're all geared up for our New Zealand adventure that begins tomorrow! We nailed down sites to see and a driving route through both islands--we'll be on the road for an average of 5 hours/day, so needless to say it'll be a whirlwind and will give us only a brief look at this pretty country. All of the recommendations we read said we'd need about 4 weeks to do what we're doing in 7 days, so we'll see what we think at the end of the trip! We'll have a campervan with a fridge full of food for the week, plenty of driving cds, each other (and baby!) and the open road!

Oh, here's a recent pic of the growing baby--she's getting bigger! The website that updates us said she's probably just over a pound and around 12 inches long already, about the size of an ear of corn:)