The Great Ocean Road........

Since the first time we tried to drive the Great Ocean Road, Rich drove and I looked out the window, it was only fair that I drove the second time. This was a bit scary for me as it was an automatic and I'd never driven one of those before, but after practising in a car park (as you do!) I found it to be easy peasy! So I drove Rich along the Great Ocean Road, then we stopped for the night in Princeton, not far from the 12 Apostles (big rock stacks in the sea). We'd heard that the best time to see these was sunset and sunrise. We thought sunset would be a bit shit as it'd been a really overcast day and not even seen the sun, but as we sat eating our noodles at the campsite, we could see it was going to be a corker, so we dashed (I was still eating my noodles en-route!) over to the viewing place to get some great sunset piccies. But by the time we found how to get to the veiwing platform it was all too late! Bugger. So we decided to get up really early and catch it as sunrise the next day....

...and we did, believe it or not, we were up at 5 and there waiting before 6am. However, the sunrise was no where near as dramatic as sunset so was a bit of an anti climax. Hey-ho, we were up early though and that was a bonus. We hit the road after breakfast bound for Adelaide (or as close as we could get before getting too tired). We stopped along the way to look at a beach and some more rock stacks and the like, but pretty much just drove.

AT 7.30pm, at least 800km's later we arrived in Adelaide! Rich drove all the way, didn't want me to drive, so he did really well, although as soon as we stopped he realised how knackered he was!! The car did really well too! So, fingers crossed it should be sweet to get us all the way round and back to Melbourne.

So folks, the blog is bang us to date now, as Adelaide is where we are now (Friday 3rd Feb), having arrived last night. We'll try and keep on top of it from now on, promise ;-)