The Great Ocean Road

Bay of Islands

Friday 9^th September

We left Port Fairy after breakfast. The wind had died down some, we headed towards Warrnambool via Koroit and Woodford although couldn’t find the original schoolhouse we were looking for. Raining off and on.

We didn’t stop in Warrnambool this trip, when we joined the Great Ocean Road, we stopped at Cheeseworld for coffee.

Loch Ard Gorge

Stunning limestone cliffs started appearing, the first lookout we stopped at was Bay of Islands. It was hard to leave the warmth of the truck. John and I rugged up in our scarves and coats.

The day was half over before we booked into Port Campbell caravan park. The wind was blowing a gale, very chilly.

Twelve Apostles, or what is left of them, a few have fallen into the sea.

Saturday 10^th September.

John lost his glasses at the twelve apostles lookout. After losing them and again finding them a few times this trip, they are gone this time. Of course the other pair are at home. They were in his pocket so goodness knows where they are.

Gellibrand River Pub.

John at the bar.

Continuing along the Great Ocean we detoured off at Laver’s Hill and went inland to Gellibrand River. And booked into the park for one night. We had lunch at the pub in front of the log fire and settled in for the afternoon. No television or internet, but will watch dvds.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

John was up at 4am, he had gone to bed at 7pm, he read his book then needed a bit of a nap before we packed up. John went on the Otway Tree top walk while I decided it was too cold and had a Devonshire tea.

Tree Top Walk.

John climbed 100 steps to the top of this tower.

Looking down.

We were back on the Great Ocean Road before lunch and stopped at a couple of lookouts for photo shoots. We decided to drive through to Lorne as we got to Apollo Bay a bit too early to settle in there. Before then we saw people out of their car on a section of road that is a koala colony. We had seen a few there on a previous trip and today found one curled up in his tree.

Koala.

Now booked in the van park at Lorne for one night. We are getting closer to Melbourne, but won’t be going into the city. Before then, we will catch the car ferry from Queenscliff near Geelong for a 40 minutes trip to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.