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Travel Diary – Trip along the Great Ocean Drive, Regional Victoria, and Toowoomba – By Ravihansa Rajapakse & Chinthika Ranasinghe Source : Qld Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – January 2023 We were living in Melbourne at the time when we had to move to Brisbane for Chinthika’s studies and my work. The Christmas holidays were looming large, and so we took the opportunity to do a ‘mega’ 12-day road trip from Melbourne to Brisbane. The plan was to first travel West along the Great Ocean Road before turning North towards Queensland. We thought of making stops at Ballarat, Bendigo, Canberra, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Newcastle, and Byron Bay, before reaching Brisbane. We started the trip early morning on the 17th of December and our first stop was Werribee Zoo. Although not overly enthusiastic about zoos, we decided to pay a visit to this zoo as it follows a different structure of ...