Left the penguins to it, and drove along the Great Ocean Road today, to Apollo Bay. Highlight was stopping at Angelsea and seeing kangaroos (real life, wild kangaroos!) on the golf course, lounging around at hole 1, ignoring all the golf balls being walloped over their heads...
Today's run was quite short, but beautiful none the less, along the beach at Apollo Bay, being attacked by a 'friendly' dog on the way, and then along the harbour, seeing brightly coloured birds on the way.
In a very exciting bending of the rules, we dropped in to the Co-Operative Fish Shop on the way back on our run and ordered dinner...sprinted back to the hostel and got changed, then rushed back just in time to pick up the most delicious fish and chips possibly on the planet. It was good because it was different - no batter on the fish but grilled and seasoned to perfection, a tasty salad, and piping hot and not greasy (an important chip consideration) chunky chips. A culinary masterpiece!
Day 49: Port Fairy
Highlight! Had breakfast in the roof terrace of the hostel, and a koala was eating his breakfast in the eucalyptus tree next to us!
Today we finished driving the rest of the Great Ocean Road to Port Fairy (which I would have travelled hundreds of miles to visit for it's name alone). The road was fantastic...including the Twelve Apostles...
And London Bridge, which used to be attached to the mainland by another arch, until 1990 when it collapsed. Crikey. Eventually the other arch will collapse too, and leave 2 columns, like the 12 Apostles...
After much gazing in awe, we got to Port Fairy, which was just like it's name suggests- a fairy tale of a place, with pretty 19th centuary wooden houses, wide streets lines with trees, and a truly wonderful one hour long run along the river (past beautifil houses and lots of sailing boats) and then around Griffith Island....
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