Although I woke at 3 a.m. this morning, I still got 11 hours of well-needed sleep. I managed to fall asleep for a couple more hours before starting our day. We enjoyed a good contintental breakfast offered at the hotel before hauling our luggage to the carpark. Interesting item for the day: We saw a Costco on our way out of the downtown area. We didn’t bring our Costco card or we might have checked it out.
The GPS worked well today so we were able to get out of Melbourne without any issues. The roadways are well marked and the highways well maintained. We didn’t see any wildlife but did see a cuckatoo and kangaroo crossing signs (the same way we’d see deer crossing signs).
We ended up connecting to the Great Ocean Road right at the start. It is a curvy single lane each way road way with lots of hairpin turns but the ocean vistas were wonderful. We stopped at Anglesea and walked out to the ocean. There are busloads of Japanese tourists and at Anglesea a number of them were taking surfing lessons.
There are a number of stops along the way where you can view the ocean and watch the surfers which we did.
With the curvy roads, it took us about 3 hours to get to Apollo Bay, our destination for the day. We had a wonderful seafood lunch before heading to our accomodations where we are currently relaxing/napping before heading for a walk on the beach and in town.
We had a lovely walk on the beach this evening and collected some shells. Surprisingly, it cooled off quite a bit this evening so no need for the air conditioner tonight.
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