When we arrived it was rather windy and overcast but not raining. We got out of the car and walked down to the beach. We walked to the end of the pier where two fishermen had about a dozen poles in the water. The water was very choppy, so glad we weren't taking any kind of boat ride! We walked up to the lighthouse and walked around it. Read all the facts and info about the place. Hopped back into the car.Next stop was to find some lunch. We drove a little further to the city of Torquay where we actually know an American couple. We parked the car and started walking around. We agreed to have Chinese and went to the the place only to find out they were closed on Mondays. We walked some more and finally stumbled on a Mexican place that was open. After lunch we walked around for another 15 minutes trying to find a public toilet. We had to ask for directions a couple of times.
Back into the car we hit the Great Ocean Road. This is similar to Highway 1 in California. It's curvy with lots of awesome views. One of the first places we could pull over, we did. I thought this was going to take forever if we were going to stop at each pull off! Anyway, we went down to the beach and took some pictures. The water here was a bit harsh. Lilly might have considered sticking her hand in but couldn't figure out how to do it without getting her feet wet. A couple pictures and a bit of sand was what we got from this stop, then off to the car.
A bit later we saw a bunch of cars pulled over so we did as well. Would you believe we saw whales? We really did. There were about six of them playing in pairs. Of course I took about 80 pictures and mostly got a fin here and there. The whales weren't very far out either. Maybe a couple of football fields, if that. It was impressive. We jumped back in the car and watched the views of the ocean go by. We also checked out all the houses strategically place on the hillside. There was one that looked like it was going to fall over. It was basically on a pillar. To get to it you had to walk across what looked to be a covered catwalk. It looked scary, I couldn't imagine living there! I have to think that it would always be swaying.
At some point along the road, the weather got a little worse. Colder and windier. Not bad since we were in the car, it was when we got out that we were shaken up. We didn't stop at that point until we got to our cottage just outside of Apollo Bay. We had booked a three bedroom cottage and were excited about staying here. Somehow the reservation (all done online) was messed up and we ended up with a two bedroom, not a big deal. Mom got to sleep in Lilly's room.
The place was great. It had a television and we could get free dvd's (although mom and I picked some weird ones), a full kitchen, tiny hot tub and a fireplace. As soon as we got inside and shut all the windows we started the fire. I would avoid telling you that I set off the smoke detectors but it was pretty funny because I had to go and open all the windows again. Pretty soon we were all nice and toasty. We had a nice few but by the time we had onloaded the car and got all settled, that was when the rain started. It rained the entire time we were there.
That was our Monday. We made some spaghetti and started putting together a puzzle. Got Lilly off to bed and then mom and I watched a movie.
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