After leaving the touring roads behind us, we spent a couple of days with Nicky at Geelong. This allowed us to relax and unwind a little before heading home, which we were really looking forward to. On our last night there, we went out for tea to The Valley Inn with Nicky and Tristan where we had a lovely meal. We missed out on ordering dessert by TWO minutes, so headed to Maccas for a McFlurry (after doing a lap of the Kmart loading bay because Kent took the wro...

Great Ocean Road - Part 3 Finally some sun!!! We woke up to a fine day in Apollo Bay and decided to go to their Saturday morning market, but as we drove up we could see only 3 stalls! So we kept on driving around to a little parking spot and got out for a walk along the beach. We then continued driving along the coast, taking in the beautiful scenery with waves beating against the cliffs until we reached the town of Lorne. There we stopped at the park on the fo...

Great Ocean Road - Part 2 More rain. And wind. Lots of wind. Our first challenge for the day was to get out of the driveway and up the dirt hill, which wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. Then it was on to the town of Timboon where we were going to visit a whiskey distillery. It didn't open until 10am, and we had arrived a bit after 9am so waited around in the carpark watching the rain fall and ducks waddling through the grass nearby (yes, it was def...

Great Ocean Road - Part 1 Woke up to rain falling on the roof...so not a great start. But we pushed onto Port Fairy anyway. Unfortunately it was raining too heavy for us to get out and enjoy anything, but we did a little drive around the streets to see some of the old buildings which were mostly nice little seaside cottages. We then drove onto Warrnambool where our first stop was at the Visitor Information Centre to ask "what can we do that is warm and dry?!". T...

The Discovery Coast We started our southern coastline adventure at Port MacDonnell and drove onto the little town of Nelson first thing in the morning. We went out to the Ocean Beach at Nelson and it was only a short walk from the car park, over the sand dune to the beach where there was HEAPS of cuttlefish washed ashore. The surf looked pretty rough, and although it was fine weather, still cold and windy. From here, we drove around Discovery Bay and out onto Ca...