I got up first and headed across the road to Maccas for a cuppa and free wifi to up date this blog. In about half an hour later Robyn joined me and eventual everyone was there so we had breakfast and then headed back to pack up. We were on the road- that's the Great Ocean Road - about 11. We had agreed to stop at all the lookouts. It took us until about 1pm to get to the twelve apostle. It had changed a lot since we were here last in 1986. We had a great chat to park ranger who filled us in on some of the details we had missed in the last 26 years. Not only had London Bridge collapsed and one of the apostles had gone down but they had rebuilt parts of the road and some of the bits we had ridden on last time had fallen into the ocean too. The best story was that the day after London Bridge collapsed the rangers had planned to take a backhoe over it to renovate the walking paths. Very please it happened the day before.
It was a perfect day weather wise and the first one they had had for a while. Everyone was out. I mean everyone. I reckon there could have been 10000 people at the Twelve Apostles. It was amazing. The great ocean road was like to great Chinese dragon as we wound our along the coast. Next time I come I am going to get up early and not stop just ride the road before anyone else want to use it. They have done a good job of creating pull off areas for slower vehicles. Unfortunately no one regardless of how many cars and motorbikes are follow consider themselves slower vehicles.
It was 4pm by the time we made Apollo Bay for lunch and 8 pm before we got back to Werribee. Adam had the pizza oven going when we arrived and in no time we were enjoying some of the best pizza we had ever had. Catching up with Adam and Bec has been one of the highlights of our trip. Tomorrow we start on our way home.
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