I've decided that Steven Beavis, horses arse, is very similar to a koala... all he does is sleep. When his alarm goes off in the morning, he just sleeps through it. Even when he does hear it, he uses it as an excuse to turn over, and go back to sleep! Because the Great Ocean Road is a long way from Phillip Island, we wanted to leave early so that we could see as much as possible today... but the Beave' slept in - so we didn't get to leave until just after 9am. Tomorrow he's agreed that we can throw water on him if he doesn't get up. I kinda hope he sleeps in now!
We drove all the way from Phillip Island back to the city of Melbourne in about 2-3 hours and on the way we paid another visit to Pin Oak Court. Luckily, there was no filming today - so we got to have a walk around 'Ramsey Street'. It was really funny - and was good fun trying to remember who lived where. When Nikki was happy and finished with being part of Neighbours, we headed South West for a place called Torquay (near Geelong), and the start of the Great Ocean Road. The weather was ok today - it was very cloudy, but at least it wasn't raining.
The Great Ocean Road is pretty impressive. At first, it was miles away from the ocean - and we were thinking it was a bit of a con, but all of a sudden everything disappears and its just your car with the sea on one side and lush green countryside on the other. Some of the sights are pretty spectacular, but as yet I don't think it's as good as Route 6 in New Zealand (maybe as we get towards the 12 Apostles it'll improve!?).
This afternoon we drove to a small town called Lorne, where we stopped to do some shopping and then went into a small bakery to get a pie each. Afterwards we took a walk along the beach, where we watched some people on a surf lesson, and then got back in the car. We then drove onto Apollo Bay. We decided that it looked like a nice place to stop for the night and so after climbing up to the top of Mariner's Lookout, (which had amazing views of the coastline), we found a small hostel called Surfside Backpackers. The hostel is right on the beach, and we were expecting it to be quite expensive - but in fact it was only $25 each and we were given a family room - which included a huge window, with spectacular view of the sea... what a bargain!
As it was quite cold out, we stayed in tonight and played Trivial Pursuit. I won the first game (quite convincingly (ha ha)), but then in the second game - out of nowhere, Nikki won without me or the Beave' even answering a question (fluke, was the official verdict). As stunned as we both were, we could not believe it when she won the third game too... when the hell did she get brainy... it must be the sea air or something!
Clever Wifey... the Trivial Pursuit Champion!
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