Saturday March 13, 2010 – Great Ocean Road

We were so glad to be out of Melbourne today. We had a pretty easy time getting out of the city.

We headed south west to Torquay. This is a surfing Mecca. We took a side road to Bells Beach and watched the surfers. There was going to by a surfing competition there this weekend. They were getting ready for it. It was so nice to see Bass Strait. The day was bright and sunny.

We wound our way along the Great Ocean Road. The road was built by service men returning from WWII. Our next stop was the Split Point Light House. There were 19 ship wrecks between Torquay and the light house. We did not take a tour of the lighthouse as it was tall and had lots of steps. There is a rock piece that had separated from the main land giving the name Split Point.

At Eastern View we stopped for a look at the rugged coast line. Lunch stop was at Lorne. It was a picnic area just outside of town. It was so nice to hear the ocean waves in the background. Lots of people were out using the beach on this beautiful Saturday. We had a very nice map of the area to Lorne. We stopped at the info centre to see if we could get a map like it for the trip onward to Peterborough. While there we found out about Erskine Falls. It was only 10k inland from Lorne. We headed up there. One can drive close to the falls. There were a number of steps down to the top lookout. There were 233 steps from the first lookout to the bottom of the falls, needless to say I did not make it to the bottom. However, Charles did. It was nice to see the pictures he took.

Our last stop for the day was a Kenneth River. We saw some Koalas in the wild. There are not that easy to see in the trees. One was by its self. There was another one with a little one. None of them was doing much. Since they sleep so much it is no wonder they were not that active.

We arrived at Apollo Bay and check in to our new accommodations. Although we are not in the first set of cabins we still have a nice view of the ocean between the cabins in front of us.