Apollo Bay Torquay Queenscliff

Left Port Campbell and travelled to Apollo Bay which is a very popular holiday spot.
Saw our first wild fox on the side of the Road today - he had some poor creater in his mouth - really a neat litle
animal. Had a good walk on the beach around the bay but there was heaps of dead birds on the beach
not sure what the story was but they could have been poisioned by the look of it - shame.
Drove from Apollo Bay to Torquay on the way drove through a number of beautiful seaside townships
Lorne, Airly Inlet and Angelsea all fantastic looking spots for a holiday with lovely sandy beaches.
The Great Ocean Road is a bit windier and narrow in this area but no worse than the Wioweka Gorge.
Booked into the largest camping ground we have come across yet for two nights.
Went for a short drive out to Bells Beach (where the film Point Break was filmed). The surf is huge
and the beach had very dangerous looking rock frontages with just a small bay of sand.
The surfers were having major problems getting out to surf as they were coming up against
huge walls of water - really brilliant to watch with a big crowd out surfing.
Went for a day trip to Queenscliff where you catch the Ferry to Sorentto and cross the bay avoiding Melbourne
if you want ,some amazing okd buildings see pic,s below

The Great Ocean Road

Left Warrnambool and headed to Port Campbell for a nights stay and spent the whole day tramping the hills viewing the sights of the “Great Ocean Road” We saw the Grotto, The Blow Hole,London Bridge The Arch the 12 Apostles, the Razorback and many more.Must have walked about 8 Kms but all of it worth it .At the 12 Apostles we had to compete with many hundreds of other tourists who had come by the bus load ,car load and van and even Motorcycle.
Looking forward to more of the same tomorrow, some amazing coastline.

Portland/Warrnambool

We travelled from Mt Gambier to Warrnambool via Portland and spent a great 4 days relaxing and seeing the local sights and Hiking around the beaches .A grat south Victorian town with many English style stone Houses ,with all the ornamental fretwork and trimmings.

Mount Gambier

Had a brilliant day of sight seeing in Mt Gambier and Port Macdonnell which is only about 1/2 an hour
out from Mt Gambier. Port Macdonnell is the Southern most point of South Australia. The coast
line is very rough and there has been an amazing number of ship wrecks along it in times past.
sand but the rest is very rocky - sort of like Tatapuri. With huge limestone cliffs and jaggered edges.
We stopped at Mt Schank on our way back to Mt Gambier and climbed up it to look in the crater -
very impressive - although it only had a very small pond of water in the bottom with heaps of greenery growing.
We then went to the stone tower in Mt Gambier which proved to be an extremely steep climb - but well worth it as
the views were fantastic. Carried on to the lookout over the Blue Lake in the crater of Mt Gambier this is
just breath takingly beautiful and the colour has only just started to change around the edges - we would
love to see it at Xmas when it is fully bright blue. Then had a look at a limestone sink hole that they have
done an amazing garden in - very big and deep down into the ground - gave me the willies walking down
the stairs to the bottom. We had been into town this morning and checked out the sink hole in there
which is also really well down with steps down into it and gardens.

Adeliade

Well we are having a great time - this tiki touring is fantastic.
Adelaide is a beautiful city - it has a real mixture of old rock building and new modern archititure. It must have been a large City even way back as the old rock buildings are very large and high. Fantastic old churches etc and lots of trees abit like Christchurch or Dunedin. Then you have Glenelg which is a suburb - it is a beachside settlement and is really cool - neat atmosphere and good shopping.

We have been for an hours walk this morning around the bottom of hill that the motor camp is on and saw a big fat Koala Bear
climbing up a gum tree ,neat to have them in the wild so close to the city centre pity we did not have the Camera.

Had a beautiful day yesterday - then high winds last night (Had to get up about midnight and pull the roll out awning in). Today is still abit windy and cooler but still nice.

We went to the old German Township of Handorf for a look around some amazing shops and old stone cafes and restaurants. Yesterday we stumbled across a Hogs and Rods show - pretty small but interesting all the same.

Map of trvels so far

This Map gives a bit of an idea of our travels
so far.Follow the purple line if you can.