Great Ocean Road

Hello,

This week has not been the best week if I am honest, I have now lost my job with Crazy Johns (as the company is closing down) and STA changed a flight we asked them not to change, meaning we are stuck with a flight home on the 28th July and cannot change it!! Luckily we had a fantastic weekend at Great Ocean Road which I am going to tell you all about. 



We left on Saturday morning, Hayley drove the whole way, bless her... so much driving! We drove down to Geelong and through to Torquay where we saw some awesome views of the beach, we stopped in a little cafe  called Swell which was lovely. Me and Meg had a pumpkin Salad, we have had a pumpkin salad in most Melbourne Cafe's now and I think the one we brought here tops them all! 

After lunch we headed to Bells Beach which is a renowned surf beach on Great Ocean Road, but it was pretty calm while we were there, we walked a long the beach, worked on our tan and had a 'who can jump the furthest' competition (Nick obviously won this!).

Next stop was the lighthouse near Bells Beach, were we went to the cutest little tea house, we had classic English Breakfast tea complete with scones cream and Jam before we explored. 

We then drove down to Lorne and chilled out on the beach and played in the park, i'm almost certain it was an adult park! 

It was getting quite late at this point so we started the drive to Apollo bay, this is where we camped for the night, for those of you who know me, I imagine you are quite surprised at the amount of camping I been doing! Was a lovely camp site, next to a lake. We went to eat in town but picked probably the worst restaurant in the whole of Great Ocean Road, so nothing to report there!

The next day we were up bright and early ready to continue down the coastline. We got the tent down and everything packed away in about half an hour (I am getting pretty good with tent malarkey).

We drove through Great Otway National Park and we were lucky enough to see quite a few Koalas! They were so cute, just chilling in the trees, we must have seen about 20 of them, some of them were eating leaves one even gave us a little wave (although he may have been scratching).

We had to stop so a cow could cross the road, you may have had to have been there but this was very VERY funny. 

We then drove to "The most significant Lighthouse in Australia" I'm not sure why it is so significant, and they charge $18 to go and see it so we swiftly turned around! although we could see it from a long way away... 

Back on the road and heading to the 12 Apostles, these are what I have been wanting to see since we touched down in Oz, I do love anything involving rocks and rock formations so I was very excited and as you can see they where impressive!! There are actually only seven left now, and we could only count six! 

After that we headed to Port Campbell for lunch on the beach, it was a boiling hot day, I'm sure I must have got at least a little bit of a tan!

We then continued to our last sightseeing spot,  which was the London Bridge, another amazing rock formation. Apparently it stretched the whole way across back in the day and when the middle bit collapsed two people where actually stuck at the end and had to be rescued by helicopters! 

We drove home along the motorway and it took us about 3 hours to get back to Melbourne CBD. Was such an awesome weekend, I didn't realise you could explore Great Ocean Road in such a short amount of time! So glad we have done it! 

Sarah 

xxx