It was still very dark as the alarm beckoned us to get up and get at ‘em. Yet, get up we did, and, in lightly falling misty rain we packed the car and set off. It was to be a day of on and off again showers as we headed onto The Great Ocean Road to check out the awesome coastal scenery.
Family members will understand when I say that I was determined this was not to be a Dubbo Zoo experience and made this clear to Gaz. He agreed, but also said he would not necessarily get out of the car every time. No worries, I said. So, we stopped here…
And here…
And here…
Amazingly, (and this really is amazing!), we missed the turn off to the Twelve Apostles, the major attraction. In our defence, Marion and Kevin also missed it and had to turn back. Turns out there is no obvious sign to tell you when to turn. So, yes, it turns out we have pretty much done a “Dubbo Zoo” and based a 20 day road trip around visiting the Twelve Apostles…and failed to do so. (Marion says they chucked a u-turn, under dangerous circumstances with their caravan in tow – got tooted and all – and can share a photo with us.)
It was a long day, but we did finish the e-book, and then moved on to me making Gary guess the song name and artist of my 60s playlist on Spotify. He was pretty good…most of the time.
We finally arrived in Warragul about 6pm after battling through the edge of Melbourne peak hour traffic and the infamous Monash Freeway that is currently under roadworks. We have voted this accommodation as our best cabin yet – criteria: lots of wine glasses, shower screen instead of shower curtain, comfy bed, right shaped bowls that fit weet bix in nicely, lots of wine glasses, wifi that works (admittedly you have to stand outside near the car), TV that works, table that doesn’t wobble and 4 chairs so we can have visitors! Oh, and a beautiful rose bush out the front! Did I mention the wine glasses?
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