Apollo Bay B&B

... when we were young - loved it!). We passed through the GOR wooden archway and the road started to twist and turn by the coast - it was lovely. We stayed in Apollo Bay for the night in a 4 bed dorm which we had to ourselves so it was great. So clean and a lovely commen area and kitchen so we were happy out watching 2 and half men (great show!). <br><br>Next day we continured on the road to Lorne which is a lovely town by the sea. We ...

... but I refused to let that stop me. I trudged up hill and down dale, with my trusty camera in tow, taking pictures of EVERYTHING, mainly because my camera can take about 800 pictures before I have to empty the memory card, so heck, why not! I saw an echidna!! Actually, I saw two echidnas, real live wild ones, but one of them was playing in the middle of the road, so I am hoping he is still with us. Unfortunately ...

After lunch we get changed into out walking clobber are raring to go. We head off to Blanket Bay for our afternoon 13km walk to Cape Otway. We do a set of warm-up exercises, scrub down our boots to protect the local environment and head off at a decent pace. The initial stretch was a steady climb inland and it was soon apparent I was going to struggle to keep up on the uphills. But the group has period stops where the ...

So we set off on our 3 day trip to the Great Ocean Road and the Grampians. It was the first time that the pair of us would be driving for 8 months, and the hire car company only had automatic cars, which in the end turned out great as the car we hired, a Hyundai Getz, was really easy to drive. So we set off from Melbourne along the highway towards the coast. to explain a little about the Great Ocean Road ...

... Bay of Islands. The name sort of gives it away - it's a bay, with lots of large islands in, each of them once being part of the land and gradually becoming little outcrops. To be honest it is much the same for quite a distance. The most famous part of this stretch, and perhaps the whole route, is the 12 Apostles. I think you can guess what they are - yes, more little outcrops in the bay. But there are no longer 12 of them, thanks to ...

... you like to dance.....Hey In Bristol we just got on and jammed in and out of the flow with different people. That is what was so exciting about it...the freedom!! Anyhow that's a bit of a cheeky rant knowing nobody here will read it...Oooops I'm still cheeky and in respect to the dancers here they do flow beautifully and I will be going to some of there technical classes. My other set of workshops is called Chakra 2 Chakra. a set of seven. Each workshop will ...

... card in the coast's hand. Looking nothing like London bridge from what I can remember it is quite cool as you marvel at the number of ways a man could be beaten to death by the waves on it's rocks. After we passed these the geology takes a more pedestrian turn and the road heads inland up through forests popping you out at the top to look over the surrounding valleys before plunging back to the coast and our destination of Apollo Bay. After checking into our motel we went for ...

... over 100 years later. I found a small piece of glass that my guide confirmed was a piece of that wreck...maybe just an old 7-Up bottle, but I like his version better. As the sun set, we made our way towards the incredible rock formations. The interesting thing here is that they have always and will always change. There are not 12 huge pieces of rock and one more fell down last year. Nature slowly erodes them until they collapse into the ...

... mad to hit the road again anyway. Melbourne was def the place to live for the few months, loads on, every event you can imagine, great relaxed atmosphere, loads of music, comedy, sports, film, restraunts, good weather, nice apartment, lisa and the crew down the road, frances and chris up the road, work over the road and the tram across the road! Ill miss it, but first one last hurrah in the city for the Damien Dempsey gig on friday night.. Bring on the Kiwis!

... number of signs pointing to stairways on hills with very shallow gradients. Next stop is The Twelve Apostles, another natural rock outcropt caused by erosion to the limestone headlands, so called because allegedly their were twelve of them in the sea. There are now only seven and there is no evidence there were ever twelve. However, it is agreed that eventually there will be less than seven given that the erosion is ongoing. From the carpark, we take the walkway out to the ...