Great Ocean Road - Final

So every time I look at my blog it bugs me that I never finished our Great Ocean Road Holiday. So I finally have some time and thought I would at least put the rest of the pictures up and write what I can remember about the trip.

Here we go.

Here we stopped to check out a historical marker and couldn't resist going down to the beach and watching the waves for a bit.

Sheoak Falls.

This is a different waterfall but I can't remember the name. We saw a lot of waterfalls! They were all so beautiful and had so much water flowing, not like any waterfalls around Adelaide!

Cape Otway Lighthouse.

It was sooooooo windy here and soooooo cold!

Mum didn't like getting too close to the edge.

Love this kid!

I love how the guy on the left joined in our picture!

Haylie loved having her picture taken and she was always getting me to take her picture!

On a different day we walked from our holiday house to the beach. It was cold and had been raining on and off all day. The Sun came out so we raced down to the beach before it rained again. I told the girls that they could go in the water. That didn't last very long!

Soaked!

Another day we went to the Otway fly and tree top walk. Buzz and I took the three older kids on the Otway fly and they loved it. Haylie was too little to do it by herself. She came a little bit later with all the Grandparents and we walked around the tree top walk.

Checking out more beautiful beaches in-between the rain. We even found some starfish in those rock pools

We had such a fun time on our holiday. There are so many things that we want to go back and see again and explore some more. We didn't get enough time in some places at all.

Great Ocean Road Holiday - Day 3

Yay for day 3! This was the day that we officially started on the Great Ocean Road. We started the morning with Dad, Buzz and I getting up early and going for a walk. After two days of driving I needed to exercise and Buzz and Dad both decided that they wanted to come as well. When we got back to our cabins we quickly had showers, got the kids up and packed the cars again.

We knew that there were going to be lots of stops that day but didn't expect them to be quite so close together. Lachlan ended up getting a bit grumpy because he didn't want to get out of the car, walk a little bit and look at more rocks! In the end though he was happier when I let him have my camera so that he could take some pictures.

Like I said there were lots of stops and I can't remember the names of all of the places but they were all beautiful.

Here is our first stop which was the Bay of Islands.

I can't remember what this one was called but it was pretty cool.

Here is London Bridge. It used to be connected to the mainland but it crumbled one day and people were stranded over there.

Another one I can't remember!

Giving Daddy some love!

I don't know what Caitlyn and Mum were talking about but it must of been good!

This was the last stop before we got to the Twelve Apostles and Lachlan had the camera. See those dark clouds in the background that is the rain coming. We had been ahead of it all day but by the time we got to the twelve Apostles the rain had caught up with us.

See those little fingers above Lachlan's head. Neither of us even realised that Haylie was doing that until we looked at the pictures!

So we got to the visitors centre at the Twelve Apostles and is was raining pretty heavily. We need some lunch so we thought we would eat while we waited for the rain to pass. By the time we finished lunch it wasn't so bad but it's lucky we had lots of umbrella with us!

These two had raced ahead with Grandma and Poppy so these were the only pictures that I got of them.

It started to rain again as we headed back to the cars. From there we headed to our holiday house in Apollo Bay. Shortly after the Twelve Apostles we leave the coast and head inland for a bit and drive through the forest. The trees are huge and the road is windy.

It was great to finally arrive at Apollo Bay. It was nice to unpack the cars knowing that we wouldn't have to pack them again for another week.

We ran to the shops to get some supplies for breakfast and work out what to do for dinner. We decided to go to one of the pizza places on the main street. I'm not usually a fan of pizza but this one was really good.  We then headed back to the house where we unpacked and settled in for the night.

Here are some of Dad's pictures that he took from that day.

 We saw lots of signs like this, but this one was the first one that said you may DIE! We thought it was quite funny!