Monday August 26.….Great Ocean Road Roadtrip

Lori arrived at Southern Cross Station about an hour after her flight landed at the airport in Melbourne…that was not too bad.  We carried on to the Metro part of the station and caught the train back “home” All the while explaining Melbourne’s train system and stations….and my plan for tomorrow.

Parent friendly checkouts at Woolworths

 
We stopped by the car rental place to put Lori on the drivers list and stopped at Woolworths to get some supplies for lunches and then we headed out…..9:30am.  a good start.    An hour later we still hadn’t figured out how to get on to the right road out of town!…..not so good a start…..We finally were on the road we wanted by 11 and on our way to the Great Ocean Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ocean_Road. The weather was just right sunshine and mild temperature....spring time weather.

I driven this road when I was here two years ago….it is one of the most scenic, amazing ocean drives in the world…….The ocean is so powerful,  the waves, the beaches , the cliffs and the views are incredible. Of course it  includes some geocaching…earth caches.   Earthcaches are caches that take you a place with geological signifigance, there is not something  to be physically found but something to be learned about the area you are in.  These caches have taken me to places that I would never have seen if it wasn’t for geocaching.

The Apostles

The Arch

London Bridge-a piece to the left has collapsed

The Grotto

Something new (or at least I didn’t remember them ) was the added to the area….. flight seeing tours, with helicopters flying up and down the coast line to see the 12 Apostles, the Arch, London bridge (features of the ocean shoreline)….they no sooner came in for a landing and dropped people off than there was another flight taking off!

The road was a lot windier than I had remembered and so it took a long  to get anywhere. I am now more relaxed about driving on the left hand side of the road.  And Lori hasn’t been clutching the side of her seat in fear…..she just mildly reminds me before we start “stay on the left”!

We ended the caching day with Lori getting 7 caches (5 of them earth caches) and I got 4 ( 2 of them earth caches, I had some from the last time) It gets dark early here about 6:00pm, remember it is still winter going into spring.....or we would have kept right on caching!!!

We stopped at a town called Warrnambool at a Comfort Inn and had dinner at a pub in the downtown area.  The lady at the motel has told us about a few things that are happening in town at the moment and we will check one of them out in the morning.  

Hmmmmmmm!