Hello all!
I still seem to be about 5 days behind. over the next couple of days I’ll send a few emails out in order to catch up!
After the Wedding we decided to take the scenic route home, via the Great Ocean Road. Starting at Camperdown we drove almost due south and reached the road at Port Campbell. From here we turned east and travelled along 180 km of beautiful road. Shielded on one side by the Otway national park we were treated to panoramic views of the clear blue ocean.
Shortly into the journey we stumbled across the 12 apostles. Not the actual apostles, they’re long dead, but 12 outcrops of rock named the 12 apostles by early settlers. That might not be true cos I just made it up, but it sounds right so hay ho, and frankly if I research every email perfectly I’ll be trying to catch up a month or so after we’ve got home.
To be honest there weren’t 12 rocks either, as you can see from the photo some have fallen down since being named, in fact one fell quite recently as Georgie found out by earwigging into someone else’s conversation.
May be they should rename them with a less biblical and incorrect name, Some lovely rocks off the coast has a good ring to it in my opinion. Anyway, I digress.
We stopped at Apollo Bay for some food which was about halfway along the road. The scenery never became dull and every corner brought us another stunning view. The food in Apollo Bay although lovely was extremely over priced, and this was how it was along the whole stretch of the road, think of it like a hot, scenic Abersoch (thats the Cheshire sets holiday get away for you non-mancunians).
After Apollo Bay we travelled to Lorne where we stopped for the night. I few miles before we reached Lorne Georgie remarked that it would be nice to see a Kangaroo or Koala before we got back to civilisation, as she said this we saw a family pointing and looking into the trees. After a carefully executed emergency stop we to got to glimpse what the fuss was about.
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Without realising it we had been driving past eucalyptus trees for the last 50 km and they were swarming with the cute little fellas. As it was getting to dusk they were wandering round in the trees getting one last fix of the leaves.
We reached Lorne just after dark and checked into the Grand Pacific Hotel. It was quite grand, about 100yrs ago. The staff were friendly though and the beer and dessert went down well. Unfortunately the room was a box room and there wasn’t any air-con, luckily the 40c heat wave wasn’t due to start until Monday.
