A family holiday for 6 months around Australia. Switching off for a while to remind ourselves of why we are doing what we do. Enjoying time with our little family that we have created. Creating some great memories and taking some awesome photographs as well.
Today started with rain, again. I did promise the girls a ride on the family bike that you can hire from the caravan park but the weather has kept us indoors for what seems ages. However just as we packed up our unit to leave, the sun popped out and so i decided to stretch our departure out a little and take them for a tour of the park by "Pedal Power".
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Heather needed to be on board with me because the leg power required to push 4 people is pretty heavy. Off we go and the giggles from the girls was non stop from the time we left til the time that mum and dad were exhausted from it and we took the bike back. Through the huge puddles and all around the park extremities. Now we set off for the Great Ocean Road.
King Of The Road
The Road itself is quite thin and care must be taken all the time. Signs everywhere saying "high accident area. take care". Stopping for a couple of pictures at the beginning to record it and also because we were assuming that it may keep raining. Fortunately for us the weather holds and the view is lovely.
Beach Stop photo
Dad & The Kids
Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch
All along the edges are what are called 'cut off areas' and this is for slow vehicles (that means us) to pull off to the side to allow others past. I did capture some video from the drivers seat by holding the camera against the side pillar and driving one handed. This may sound extremely dangerous but in fact as long as you concentrate on only the road and forget the camera, you drive no worse than if you had 2 hands on the wheel. I only captured when there were no other cars oncoming. (see video)
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Our goal today is Johanna beach camping ground for an unpowered site. 50 sites available with no drinking water, but close to the beach. This also puts us right in the middle of the Otway National Park. Great area for tree top walks, Wilderness walks and Lots of koalas.
The Sun Breaks through
Mia's Windy Lookout!
Catching Salmon, The easy way.
During the trip heather caught sight of some Dolphins jumping in the surf at Apollo bay and so we stopped at the next roadside Cut off. There were 2 other cars there at the time and one of them happened to be a professional fisherman. His wife explained to us that he was using a special lure to catch Salmon off the rocks. I shot some video and if you notice he catches a salmon every cast into the water. His wife offered us some of them and so we took her up on it.. beautiful fresh from the ocean fish for dinner. This irritated me alot because of the luckless fishing attempts i have made along the way. ( see video)
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Salmon Fillets for dinner!
We make a couple of stops for fuel and sightseeing and arrive at about 3.15pm. After setting up we shoot up the road (about 8kms) to grab some fresh water, coffee and to take a look around.
There is a BIG TREE for viewing at Lavers Hill and so before it gets dark we thought we would take a look. A 45 minute round trip through the very wet and green rain forest we discover that the tree had fallen last year due to wind and erosion so we only got to see the BIG FALLEN TREE, But it was a good energy burner for the girls who walked really well and complained very little. Lily needed a piggy back ride toward the end but all in all a cool little nature walk. As we left it was dark and so back to camp to eat dinner (yummy salmon) and warm up for a chilly night by the sea.
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