First stop port fairy. Lovely little town with lots of old stone buildings and houses. River and ocean front. Cold again. High of 14. Next stop coffee at Portland. Opposite docks. Two industries here. Aluminium smelting and wood chip manufacturing. Must be 10 ships waiting out to sea! Was intriguing watching trucks load wood chips onto the dock then other trucks loading the same wood chips from the docks to the boats...all going to china where they make wood chip...

After a big brekky we headed out of Torquay. It was thundering and lightening all night but not too bad in morning. We made it Appollo Bay for coffee with just light sprinkles....then as we were getting out of the car for coffee the storm hit....never above 9 degrees all day...gale force winds and pounding rain....needless to say the drive between Appollo Bay and. WArrnambool was very challenging...lots of water on the road and local flooding and the wind was so ...

Today was a relaxing day....big breakfast comes with our stay so we pigged out on brekky today....then I went for an hours walk along beachfront..then we went to surf beach and watched the literally hundreds of people...families, oldies and youngies...surfing...neat to see! We did a tour of down town, stopped for a drink and a snack, and relaxed a while...I went for a swim in the Olympic pool here..great pool and gym....big thunderstorm this afternoon so our golf...

Well weather is supposed to turn sour for our trip to Adelaide via great ocean road so decided to explore it todAy as it is a beautiful sunny and warm day.....drove to Loren with many stops along way and ate lunch there...very crowded...not many towns along route and those there is are very crowded....decided to drive on to Appollo Bay and then to Cape Otway Lighthouse...a long way but well worth it....full of eucalyptus trees and we saw lots of koalas in the wil...

Lots of time so after breakfast I tried the rooftop pool at the hotel...although cold getting out it was heated to 30 degrees...very nice and great way to relax before driving. I studied the map as I don't trust tom tom and found the easiest way out of town...it worked perfect and we were on the M1 in no time! Got to Peppers at the Sands resort at about 12:30...settled down and we both wat he'd Jenny's funeral online on u tube...very unsettling so only went for a...