Week Two Day Fourteen

John and Hope on top of the lighthouse.




The lighthouse in the mist





A scenic view.

An interesting sign at Apolla Bay

What can I say about today......you guessed it RAIN and MIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We stopped at the beach in Torquay so Hope could paddle this morning and we had a walk on the beach. That was great. We then headed out on the Great Ocean Road. Wow the views are fantastic. It is majestic to look at the end of Australia. We stopped off at Lorne for coffee and a sandwich. What a lovely place.

If we could only stop at all the places but alas time does not allow.

The next lovely little place was Apollo Bay. They have a lovely pier and the fish was just there calling for us to catch and eat. However it was their day... we were headed for Cape Otway lighthouse. On the way to the lighthouse we where forced to stop on the road, we thought because of an accident, because there were about 6 cars stopped. We slowly made our way through just to find a koala on the side of the road drinking rainwater from the road. It was so cute. Unfortunately for us there was no where for us to stop. Boo Hoo!

We made it to the lighthouse. We visited the telegraph station and a few of the other sights, then went to the lighthouse. 78 Steps later we got to the top. Obviously the view was not fantastic.

We then left for Port Campbell, we had earmarked a free campsite at Johanna Beach, but it was raining to hard to camp. We could not see the 12 Apostles again because of the mist, so we will have to back track 10 km's tomorrow. We are now in a "Flash Packers" (up market backpackers) in Port Campbell. We are busy socialising with a Chinese couple, an Israeli couple, Tracey a lady traveling on her own. It is great. John had to teach the Chinese guy how to cook pasta as he has never done it before. We were defiantly meant to be here tonight.