Melbourne Great Ocean Rd Part 2

We’ve spent more of today meandering along the Great Ocean Road, seeing more and more fantastic beaches and rock cliffs and formations. The towns along the road are quaint; small and very local.

Thoroughly enjoying wandering along the coast, we ended up at a place called Peterborough, having already driven past Torquay, Anglesea, Casterton(!) and Dunkeld(!!).  This place is very 70’s and quiet, one shop and one pub, may be 50 houses.  It must survive on the summer trade.

Say what you mean.

Carole insisted on going for a swim, white hot sand and water like ice, I retreated to the pool and eventually after much screaming managed to get in for a brief flounder.

We’ve found this part of Australia somewhat disorientating, the beaches are definitely like the Algarve coast of Portugal but bigger and longer.

We’ve driven inland and we’d come across a really English pastoral scene; picturesque fields, great cattle grazing by the stream, only when you re-focus you realise that the field is 2000 acres not 20, the stream is a full blown river and there’s a red and white parrot sat on the fence.  As I said before “Same, same, but different”.

Yet another bird we’ve never seen before

Going further along the coast tomorrow before swinging inland into the Grampians – wine and hill country. When we rang to book the YHA at Halls Gap in the Grampians they told us not to arrive too late as we’d risk running into a kangaroo on the roads at dusk”

I particularly liked the 'roo's hat...