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Travel Blogs from Torquay, Australia
'Team Cobba'
This is a top pick! By the weekend we'd rustled up three days to spare, a realistic option of making it over to distant Warrnambool and back again in time for tea. Five days would have been a perfect timeframe for consuming the delights of the Great Ocean Road, that is ...
The beginning of the Great Ocean Road....
This is a top pick! ... to jump on the first bus out. The first stop was Torquay and the beginning of GOR. It was also the birthplace of surfing in Australia. I headed to the Bells Beach Lodge - the only backpackers in town and managed to get a bed. It wasn't long before I ...
First week of school...and surfing!
... beach. It worked! I met an interesting fellow about my age who works in China, but was back in Australia to go to his friends wedding in Torquay. His sister was coming to pick him up and said they would drop me off near the hostel. ...
Party in Geelong and Surfing Bell's Beach
... shut things down instead..woke up around 10,grabbed some breakfast at Sam's cafe and hit the road south towards the surfing town of Torquay (where Rip Curl and Quicksilver started up). We pulled up on the main drag and checked out some of the shops, the ...
Busy Days in Torquay
... are now transformed into surfers and will have a try at it again when we go back home (although Florida's waves cannot compare to Torquay's). We then visited the Surf Museum to learn a more about the history and culture of it, and how it is truly ...
Transport to New Host Families
We left Torquay at 9am Thursday morning for our next stop of our GSE adventures. We traveled in a caravan of 3 cars, stopping along the way to take photos and check out a Australian Rain Forest waterfall and beaches. We met our new host families at Livers ...
Day at the beach (one of many!!!)
... to speak to over the festive period. These pics are from a wee day at the beach (one of our many trips I should say) at Torquay which is a town just at the start of the great ocean road. Karen and I are now getting used to our permatans, doesn't stop ...
'No way Bell's is bigger than Waimea bro...'
... some boards and wetsuits to sell, and eventually it turned into a multi million dollar international brand. The headquarters is still in Torquay (probably as they still want to be close to such a world renowned surf beach) and we spent an hour shopping ...
best internet so far in Aus
It is free and it is a reasonable speed, woo hooo! Bad news, I got my hair cut today , first haircut in 4 months, since we started this trip. This is a nice place , climate is really nice and there is a huge beach, not very surfy though, but still nice ...
Bells Beach In The Mystery Machine!
... i come round the corner blasting the horn,watched the Office box set back to back and got wasted at his house before settin off for Torquay next am.Stopped at Si's greek aunts on way to get his board,realised had a hole in the radiator of van as lad had ...
Surf on great ocean road
... surf. The water wasnt too cold plus I am so unfit I was getting a really good work out so woudl not have noticed! Torquay is a fantastic spot just 1-1.5hrs from Melbourne and close enough for a day trip... highly reccommend it! Back to Melbourne to the ...
The great ocean road
... back. We did stop on the way to take a picnic lunch of the stuff I got at the market the morning. We also stopped in Torquay, where EVERYTHING was surf-related. Even the library had "surf" all over it. By the time we returned the car and got back to ...
Start of the Great Ocean Road
... of the local 'juice bar' but decided we weren't in the mood for a smoothie. Juice bars are all over the place in Australia, where you can get milkshakes, smoothies, iced drinks, juices, etc, but then they have got the climate for them! We drove along ...
great ocean road
... every village is a marvell.. don't do it on a two-three days tour.. there is enough to spent a month around there... Torquay, Bells, Lorne, Appollo Bay, Anglesea, Cap Otaway, 12 Apostle, Johanna beach, Port Campbell, Warnambool.. Port Fairy, Portland.. if ...
Surfles dag 1
Woehoe! Ga eindelijk surfen in Australi''! Ga voor 2 dagen een surftour doen langs de Great Ocean Road. Torquaq is de uitvalbasis van de surfschool. De twee surfmerk magnaten Ripcurl en Quicksilver zijn hier begonnen. Zat in een groep met 6 anderen. Voor ...
Surfles dag 2
Ging veel beter vandaag met het surfen. Er waren vandaag veel sterkere golven. In de ochtend waren er nog twee oudere mannen die een surfles namen. In de middag waren ze al vertrokken waarna ik dus 1 op 1 privé les had met de instructeur :p. Die wees ...
Arrival
... of jet lag, but we will most certainly work through it. Today on our first stop we are going to the RC Torquay Charity Golf Tournament at 2:00pm. We are going to be participating as well, hopefully we will not make our teams looks too ...
Unfinished Buisiness
... and had its beginnings back in 1996, shortly after we were married, Tan, I and our German Sheppard Mitch embarked on a trip around Australia. Heading up the east coast we only got as far as the Gold Coast where we both landed jobs at Seaworld, loved the ...
Surf's Up
Surf and sun is up and we're loving it, even if we have got mullered by a few choice waves a few times. Torquay is somewhat different to its UK rival (replace retirees with surf-dudes and chicks) and has a lot going for it including lots of ...
Day.11 - Great Ocean Road
Day.11 I woke up with the rain battering down on my camper. Just what i needed. However, i used this to my advantage and got out of the van in my boxers and had a rain water shower.lol. I have never felt so refreshed to be honest. With ...
Torquay Bells Beach And Rip Scooby Doo Van
... screen,deckchairs over looking the city before Si flew off to New Zealand on his working visa next morning. Decided to head down to torquay again with Jens in the bus and hired out another board,sleeping at side of road in the bed at back,surfing all ...
Changes of plan!
... prepared with mobile numbers and resumes - and by the time I was prepared, I felt like I wanted to see some more Australian Australia before I work in a city (if I do). So I've headed out west along the "Great Ocean Road" which runs between ...
pics bells rip curl pro, fiesta et fin
... 8em3, 4 1/2 et finale.. le nom vous dira surement rien, mais c est Taj Burrow qui a gagne.. il est de Yallingup, Western australia... c est un de mes favoris apres Occy. il a gagne sous la clameur du public.. et sous le son du digeridoo.. on se serait ...
more
Tried to get stuff done, made my phone calls, but the internet café is closed on Mondays as well, so couldn't make any progress. Its nice talking to mom and dad everyday, because well until today that's pretty much all the talking I do all day. Took the ...
Driving Miss Daisy
... prices, we found most decent guest houses full. We thus decided to have a seafood dinner (mostly deep fried - no wonder Australia is the most obese nation) overlooking the harbour, with a glorious sunset before pushing on to the next town of Genoa - ...
surfing goddesses
We're in the surfing capital of Australia for a few days.. I had a surf lesson.. am not a natural.. its actually really difficult! But was lots of fun though am going to have many bruises tomorrow! Unfortunately Nicki is a sicky lady so she couldn't go ...
Torquay
... one block since I bought my ticket to come here but it wa well worth it. On our first day out (Jan.2), we drove through to Torquay but after about an hour of searching for a place to sleep and getting pulled over for not wearing our seatbelts (left of the ...
Great Ocean Road
... surf related. I didn't buy anything and as there wasn't much swell I didn't go surfing either . It's the middle of winter in Australia at the moment and this was really evident in the hostel I stayed where I was the only guest! I got an early start ...