Yesterday, I went to Split Point Lighthouse looking for the ghost of a teenage girl that apparently died here a century ago. It’s said that in the early 1900’s a family occupied Split Point Lighthouse. One night, the teenager daughter explained to her parents that she was pregnant. The father took her fishing that night

The story of Ramsden Cave goes about a century ago, a farmer lost his goat and tracked it along the coast from Apollo Bay west, all the way to Cape Patton. Just past Cape Patton and half way up the sixty-five metre cliff with the Great Ocean Road on top, he followed the goat into

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 work on what became one of the largest engineering feats the world had ever

Beeripmo Circuit – Richards to Richards What better way to celebrate a birthday than doing an overnight hike in country Victoria. Trying to steer clear of anything too difficult so that we could drink a few beers and enjoy ourselves a bit more than usual, we picked the Beeripmo walk as it was meant to

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 leave behind a lot of our older blog posts from the last 1-2 years. We’ll

Jun, 05, 2018  By Tom  Comments Guy and I went on a two night canoe trip down the Glenelg River in the Lower Glenelg National Park on the border of South Australia and Victoria. It was Christmas time and the Summer sun couldn’t have been more accommodating. It’s about a five hour drive west of Melbourne or