Day 3 – Ballarat to the Great Ocean Road (Apollo Bay)

Thankfully we didn’t see or hear our ‘friend’ from the previous night (see previous post) and were able to get up and out without any more traumatic encounters.

So at last we really started to drive and took a route down to Geelong (the ‘Gateway to Colac’ as I’ve heard it described once!), down through Torquay (even more surf obsessed that it’s Cornish counterpart back in the UK) and picked up the Great Ocean Road – one of the things that you never stop hearing about when you say you’re going on a road trip around Australia.

And it’s for a good reason.

The view of the Great Ocean Road (GOR) is amazing. Every little point you want to stop and take photos, but if you did that then you’d never reach anywhere, ever!

It’s also very well constructed and although a very windy road there are plenty of ’slow vehicle passing points’ so you can get rid of those idiots giving you rear love up the exhaust pipe and let them pass.

We made a brief stop in Lorne for lunch and lovely walk along the beach, then carried on to Apollo Bay further down the road.

It’s a quaint little town, but not really much else to do apart from be on the beach and chill out there and in the cafes along the GOR, which of course is pretty great.

En route to Apollo Bay we stopped at Split Point Lighthouse – a major contribution to ship safety through the Bass Straits. Now I hope that that doesn’t really excite you all that much, but many of you might be a little more interested when I tell you that Split Point is where the, er, ’seminal’ Australian children’s series ‘Round the Twist’ was filmed and based.

Can’t say that it particularly excited me either. But it completely made Bernice’s day!

Bernice’s moment in front of the Lighthouse!

A view from the Great Ocean Road

Bernice on the beach at Lorne.

~ by thesynapse on 5 February, 2009.