Road Trip - The Great Ocean Road - Day 2

A fairly early start today, and on the way through town I stopped for breakfast. It was nice to sit out and enjoy the sun after the cold weather in Melbourne. As I'm sitting there, I notice these two birds having breakfast at the table next to mine:



Someone had told me to go to the Gibson Steps and as I'd not been the previous day I drove back passed the Apostles and walked down to the beach. It was one of those perfect days, and I got some great pics - here's a small sample:







Having got back to the car, I headed off on the next stretch which has all the famous stuff. Here's a sample:

The Arch:



This was called London Bridge until part of it fell into the sea - it's now called London Arch:



This left me with a slight dilemma - as I had neither a cat nor a dog with me :-)



The Grotto - it looks better in real life:



I think this is the Bay of Islands - not really sure - but it looked nice:



I stopped for lunch at Port Fairy and sat on the rocks and had a sandwich and Ginger Beer, and then took this photo of the sea doodars:



And then I left the coast, and headed in land to Hall's Gap, along the long, and often straight road. this is when you realise just how big Australia is:



And on it went - looking like this:



And when you've been driving for a very long time, on a very straight road, it starts to look like this:



And then the drugs wore off and it started to look like this again:



And then, as I neared Hall's Gap, it looked like this:



Finally I arrived at Hall's Gap, only to discover that it was the Jazz Weekend, and there were no rooms anywhere, and the next place is miles away. After trawling most places in town I eventually found a hostel just out of town, and unbelievably, they had a whole dorm room free. Which was good, because I really needed some sleep and the room (designed for 8) only had me in it. I probably had the biggest single room in the whole of town that night.

I had a real good chat with the guy who was looking after the place. He specialised in Aboriginal Archeology, and we ended up chatting for ages.

On Alan's recommendation I headed into town to the local pub and ate tea while watching Kangaroo's hopping on the lawn. Unfortunately there are no pics, as just as I'm about to take a photo some plonker scared them away. Oh well...