Saturday, December 4, 2010

Parents Visit 3/3 - Great Ocean Road

I'll keep this post short since the visit was a while ago (November 12th?) and I have a bunch of posts coming up about my recent expedition: the Great Ocean Walk.  In fact, it was so long ago that I can't really remember anything notable that happened.  It took well over three hours to get to the road—way longer than I envisioned—as we started at the 12 Apostles and worked our way back along the coast.  The day was overcast but the crowds still turned up.


Parents and Apostles.


We made it to Apollo Bay at dinnertime and stopped to eat at Cafe 153.  As I recall the maĆ®tre d’ vaguely resembled Michael Caine.  My mom and I both had the fish special—perhaps it was grouper—which was fresh and simple.  To drink I had a local microbrew that used rainwater from the region.

A good beer, as far as I can remember.

After the sun set on our way back we decided to cut inland thinking the road would be less windy and shorter, but for the first 50 km it was probably worse.  We eventually made it back to the city pretty late.

I just got back from the 6-day Great Ocean Walk, so over the next week I will post my journal entries from each day along with some of the photos I took (there are over 400 but I’ve already selected the 114 best...).  For the rest of my time here in Australia my internet access will probably be spotty so bear with me if there are long breaks between posts.

No comments:

Post a Comment