OMG Great Ocean Road!!

So we didn't end up riding the grassy tram, but we did ride the Great ocean road but before that.

the morning run down to the Road was same old, a bit straight but not to bad. We pulled in for lunch somewhere at the very beginning of the great road so we hadn't really seen anything yet after the smallest $3 chips we have ever scene and some fish of course we headed off to check it all out. the next few hours were spent checking out the sites.

So here is what we stopped to check out

The Grotto: a mad whole dug out in the cliff face by the water it even had a little shallow pool in the bottom. as we stood there and checked it out someone emerged from the sea it was quite cool.

London Bridge:

the Arch:

Thundercave:

The blow whole:


Loch and Gorge: there was suppose to be shipwreck's here but i didn't see any, i could however see how ships may be turned into wrecks here as it is quite wild and the rocks have pointy edges

The twelve apostles:

After all the site seeing we decided to head up to Colac for the night partly because there was a mad ride that ended there in the atlas and partly because some of the old characters in neighbours came from there. The Ride up to Colac was truly terrifying, now before i go on you would think that a nice windy road through the mountains would be allot of fun and so did i when i saw the next 65k winding road sign, however just around the corner from that sign the road works begun. I have never ridden on a gravel road before and by gravel i mean like an inch thick of gravel but to make it worse i think it was the most windy 5 k strech of the mountain. Anyway for the next 5 or so k's i held on tighter then ever before looked out harder then ever before and swore more times then i have in the last year (and yes i know that's allot) but wait until you see the footage we have from the helmet cams and you will know what i mean.

So Colac was just how it was descried in neighbours ( a bit Dero) but a nice enough place. We camped in a caravan park by lake Colac (puddle Colac better describes the place right now) we setup the tents and then went in search of food. We managed to find a fine dining restaurant (i was surprised too) and the food there was actually really great. afterwards we had a few drinks at the tents and watched a moonlight screening of Lie to me on the laptop, oh and I discovered i can carry a bag of ice on the bike, pretty cool huh!

Next morning we woke, packed up, eat breaky at a cafe and headed off back through a different mountain road (equally as windy but with no gravel thank goodness) back towards the great ocean road again.

The next section of the GOR was awesome constant 40 -60 k bends not too long so you could carve it up nice and to top it all off an amazing ocean view the whole time. I guarantee you other boys we will be coming back to do this road again some time in the next year and i think you should all come with us! if your still not convinced i have some helmet cam footage that should help change your minds very easily.

We stopped for lunch at Lorne at a seafood restaurant on the peer, i had a seafood platter an it was fantastic! cant wait to get to Tassie though apparently the seafood they have there puts anything here to shame. After lunch we had a bit More GOR left, it was still good but the best bit was definitely Colac to Lorne after the GOR we pretty much had highway to Melbourne and bar a little GPS catastrophe (Basically rendering the GPS useless, although arguably it was useless already) the rest of the trip went smoothly. arrived in Melbourne about 1830 and have been here since then.

Oh just a little update as i have been meaning to post this figure for ages but so far on the journey we have covered about 2900 K's

K peeps that me till next time
Catchya