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Hi Everyone!
First of all my apologies for not keeping you all more up to date with our adventures, things have remained hectic here with one more day to go before Maggie and Pete return to the UK and Joey returning for 2 final days in Melbourne!
As I'm sure you all know if you've been checking the pics, we have been on a three day trip to the Great Ocean Road this week and it proved to be a fantastic mini break!
After work on Monday, we picked Maggie and Pete up from Geelong and headed down to Lorne where we had booked a gorgeous little cottage set in lovely grounds filled with flowers and a friendly Customer Services Manager named Zinny the dog! We popped to have a quick look around Lorne supermarket to grab some goodies for tea (including surprise Easter eggs woohoo!) and then just chilled at the cottage for the rest of the evening.
Day two..Unlike where we live in Melbourne we were not woken up by drilling noises and the local road workers but instead the very loud sound of Cockatoos demanding to be fed! We had some breakie and then took the bird seed out to brave feeding the massive birds which were now lining up on the balcony ready for their breakfast! My particular favourite was one of the smaller Cockatoos who I affectionately named Scabby due to his ruffled feathers and under nourished appearance..we immediately made a connection and I was able to get him to speak to me a bit too which was cool :) Who knew I could speak Cockatoo!?!
They really were amazing! It was like being in a bird sanctuary and they were so tame we could feed them from our hands...this was all going swimmingly and everyone was having a great time..that was until Pete got nipped by one of the blighters and then Chris got nipped by the same one!
We left the birds squabbling over the left over seed and headed out to our first stop which was the deserted Cumberland Beach. Here we had great fun playing frisbee and then the Lewis family decided to build a dam! I found this very amusing and was wondering whether it was a family tradition to build dams as they all set to work like beavers and I took a few pics!
After this we headed on to Apollo Bay where we had a hot chicken picnic and walked around the shops before carrying on to Maits Rest Rainforest Walk which was fab again!
From here we went Koala spotting down the Cape Otway National Park Road and then carried on to the Twelve Apostles. Unfortunately, it was very windy and Maggie and Pete were freezing!!!! We took a few pics and then flew back to the car to head back to Lorne.
We got take out pizzas from our favourite take out pizza place and then spent the evening eating Easter Eggs and playing Monopodeal!!!! Maggie by this point was very agitated because she couldn't seem to win a game no matter how hard she tried!
Day three..After packing up the cottage we went for a look around Lorne, and then headed back towards Melbourne via Anglesea Golf Course where we spotted kangaroos hopping across the greens! This was brilliant as we had been telling Maggie and Pete how rare it is to see them at all...let alone in the middle of a golf course!
We headed back to the city via a brilliant antique shop full of goodies and then stopped at St Kilda to pick up some cakes and have a relax on the beach!
A very busy three days to say the least!
Catch up soon
netti xxx
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