Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula

Lorne to Melbourne

The Great Ocean Road stretches from Gelong to Port Fairy, around 600 Kms.


Bells Beach, famous for surf and the the loss of one Prime Minister. How could a nation be so careless to loose a PM at the beach... Harold will be found one day living with thousands of sunglasses.

Melbourne and one of the new buildings the Skytower. We went up this tower, it is not the tallest in the southern hemisphere, but it does have the highest viewing platform.

A few days with the McNultys. Richard was my best man. Richard, Susy and their two children James and Sarah live in Melbourne. The Melbourne CBD from the skytower. The Skytower is 300 Metres tall.
The Rialto buildings ( formally the tallest buildings).

Melbourne CBD.

Richard and the bells.

Erez, Kerry, James, Cloe and Adina at their home in Melbourne.

Erez being the ass..!

Morning Peninsula

Grant, Charmaine and their two boys Wade and Julian.''Hello to everyone'' says Mitch ( Mitch had spent the previous night throwing up....


A maze!

Mitch lost and in a panic.

Let's get out of here!

Fly Mitch..fly..!

A rockhole at Sorrento Beach in the Mornington Peninsula.

The Warriewood flag flying.

Fort Napean at the end of the Mornington Peninsula. The ship in the background is the Spirit of Tasmania. The boys wanted to open fire on her as she came through the heads.

Mitch has spotted an enemy shop... and Kate is prisoner.

Gun enplacement

We spotted this wildlife in on the outskirts of Melbourne, come to think of it I had seen them in the outback as well.

Victoria - The Great Ocean Road

Great Ocean Road and the 12... no 11..... wait.... 10 Apostles.

South Australia was dry and flat to the very end. We crossed the border and only a surveyor would have known the difference.

Wind Farm on the Victorian Coast. This was one of the first, and with 14 windmills it is quite small.

Port Fairy lighthouse. Most of the light houses were built in the mid to late 1800's. The first major act of the state governments working together prior to federation was the management of the light houses.

Kate and the boys at Port Fairy. Callum ended up with sand in his eye.

Warrnambool

Flagstaff Hill - a replica 1880 port. Good fun and quite low key.

A volunteer dressed as a teacher.

At night there is a sound and light show based on the the 1880 wreck of the Loch Ard. There where only 2 survivors from the 56 people on board. There were many wrecks, but this one captured the public's imagination as the two survivors where a young woman and a young man who spent the night together on a lonely beach.. scandalous!

The Bay of Islands. This coastline is know as the shipwreck coast. Over 200 Ships have gone down between Warrnambool and Melbourne.

London Bridge. The joining bridge collapsed in 1990 stranding 2 people out on the island.

The Arch.

Loch Ard Gorge.

The fair maiden and the two suitors.

Mitch at Gibson steps.

An airborne Cal. He actually jumped right over my head.

Who let the dogs out?

The Apostles.

Damper on the fire at Cape Otway.

Station Beach - Cape Otway.

A dinosaur and that guy from Fat Pizza.

The Otway fly

Hard to show but this was a cantilever walkway with a clear 30metre drop below.

The Cape Otway Telegraph station. This was build in the mid 1800's as part of a Telegraph cable link to Tasmania. It was the primary communication link to Tassie.

Cape Otway Lighthouse. Built 1846.

Where's Mitch and Callum.

Blanket Beach. This campsite is only available by ballot - lucky for us someone had failed to turn up for their site so we camped overnight.

The Otway forest. Cold climate rainforest.

Appollo Bay.

The Great Ocean Road between Lorne and Appollo Bay.

Clams

Skink

Koalas are common in Cape Otway. Kept us awake at night... all that grunting and and snorting.. the noisy buggers.