Great Ocean Road

We had travelled the Great Ocean Road twice before, one in 1984 with our Jayco Swan van, with Angel and Jenny, then again a few years later on our return from South Australia with Dick and Gloria, since then a few of the 12 Apostles had fallen into the sea, so it did look a little different.

We had rung Torquay to see if there was a vacancy, but were told that it was $72 per night for a van site, so we then rang Angelesea down the road a bit, and they were charging $71, and we could get a 10% discount as  Big 4club Members, so we booked in there..  As it was a long weekend - Melbourne Cup - which is on the Tuesday, so people take Monday off and have a long weekend, but we didn't know about that.  There were lots of young children, mostly on scooters or small bikes rushing around everywhere having fun.

We were a bit disappointed with the drive from Steve's place to Anglesea, as we were told that there was a new freeway, but it finished just before the city, so we stopped at every corner ( traffic lights) in the city before getting back onto the freeway ( which we could have missed through bad signage).

From Anglesea we drove through Lorne to Apollo Bay, winding through Cape Otway to Port Campbell which was a must larger park than it was on our last visit ( when we were the only caravan in the park).  There were lots of vans there, the first site they gave us was too small, so we had to move to another site and set up.  We drove out to see the 12 Apostles and other stones and cliffs etc.  It was very misty, and lots of tourist buses pouring out lots of tourists of all nationalities.

Next morning was fine and sunny, did some washing and in the afternoon we walked up to the shops and enjoyed some coffee and freshly made muffins.