Waking up not knowing exactly where you are is like a dream to us. After parking in the dark of the night we wake eager to see our surroundings. Just a small walk through some sand dunes and we hit a vast sweeping beach and a never ending ocean. The ocean air so rich it makes you sleepy. we are vanners, explorers and happy.
A morning in Apollo Bay which is defiantly enough for anyone, as it seems like a charmless version of Lorne, and we head for more remote scenery. We head for the great Otways lighthouse in the Otway national researve. Through dense forrest and windy roads we loose ourselves to the charm only to be thrown by a bunch of cars just stopped in the road, what are they doing? No Storm they're not doggers, confused by the comotion we park up and have a look. KOALAS IN THE TREES! WOWZA. What a sight for our first full day on the road. Unthinkable. we carried on to the lighthouse to find that they charged admission, even just to look from the outside, to tell the truth we didn't even care aftter our sighting.
We headed on and to a free camping site, which are provided in the national parks on the Great Ocean Road, a site at Johanna bay. Getting there by early evening we head straight for the beach wanting a well deserved cool down from the hot drive. What unravelled was, to our amazement, a dream like haze wraped around an epic rolling sea, that in a slowmotion curl, thundered onto the land. swimming? definatly not, so we walked the length of the beach. luckily coming apon an outcrop of rock that had formed into pools. So rockpool bathing it was to be!
To our outright suprize a heron came and joined us and fished only a pool away catching small witing or such. Real wildlife unfased by humans. A gem.
Dinner prepared by the master chef, Storm and a bottle of red- picked up by our knowlagable wine man Ross. And yes we had our romantic table setting inside our van.
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