TORQUAY

Woke up again this morning to light rain, but the thunder of the waves on the surf beach at night was nice. So about 10.30am we left Johanna's Beach(photo) and after some more of the Otway Ranges forests we emerged at Apollo Bay and followed the tight & twisty road along the cliffs with great views for which the Great Ocean Road is renown for. It was windy & drizzling rain for most of the journey as we past through Wye River, Lorne where we had a "yuppie" meat pie each for lunch , Airey's Inlet and Anglesea, most of these towns now are just week-end getaways for the yuppies from Melbourne now, so alot of street cafes etc. with prices that match! Although still saw a few "surfies" around as well. After detouring to take a look at Point Addis where there was great views along the coast both ways we traveled on past Torquay to a nice reserve for Grass Trees and will stay there tonight as we want to have a look around Geelong tomorrow.

After Geelong we think we might head up to north west of Bendigo to assist with bush-fire restoration. We found a request for help on the C.M.C.A. website (our motorhome club) for help by an organisation called "BLAZE-AID" (http://www.blazeaid.com.). We contacted them today and they were grateful for any help, so we'll give it a go anyway for awhile at town called "Bridgewater" or maybe "Charlton". We told them we will try and get there next Wednesday sometime, so we will have good look around on the way there. Joe managed to call today to tell us that the 5 girls did stay at his place in Adelaide. Very Poor wireless internet and Vodafone and Telstra coverage here.