G'day mate,
We made a stop off in Warnambool after Robe so Rob could recover from driving a bit before hitting the great ocean road. It would take all day to drive because all the stop offs to look at the coast. Unfortunately, the one day we wanted good weather it was overcast, rainy and very windy, so stopping at the great rock formations that the GOR is famous for was a bit more challenging and not as fun in the rain and wind! They were quite impressive though.
The 12 apostles (now 6) were the best sight. It took a while to get through the first bit, as you are stopping every two minutes by the brown markers to look at something. We then drove for what seemed like ages in land which we a bit disapointed about, what happened to the great ocean road?? This took a good hour or so until we dropped back down to the coast. It was a long winding road along the coast, right next to the sea, which was scenic. But, it took forever because it's so twisty twiny and your'e right by the cliff edge so you can't exactly go
wind farms....everyone kicks up about them considering they are in drought!
bombing round!
It was pretty but for all the time it took, you could do something similar in England (minus the rock formations obviously). It probably didn't help because the weather wasn't brill. We passed through somewhere close to home towards the end of GOR - Torquay! We were planning to stay in Geelong at the end of the GOR but as we were doing ok for time we headed straight to Melbourne, which took another 1 1/2 hours. We checked into a big 4 campsite and crashed out, it had been a long day!
until next time...
Rob and Han
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The grotto....we had to walk down loads of steps to get down to this one.
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