The Great Ocean Road from Lorne to Apollo Bay
Hannah didn't sleep very well last night because 1. she kept thinking about the spider 2. the bed sheets smelt of TCP 3. Neil was snoring and 4. she needed a wee in the middle of the night and was too scared to go until she woke me up to tell me she was going to the toilet (which is located outside and round the corner).
We were both woken to squawking but this time really loud at 7am (it was raining). Later we went to the shops for supplies and saw about 15-20 cockatoo's on someone's balcony. We think they must have been feeding them.
Made our pack up for the day and went in seach of waterfalls in Lorne. Found Erskine falls, it was a rainy day so we wrapped up and walked down to the waterfall which was beautiful. Got some photos and the hard part was walking back up all the steps. We started to make our way on to Teddy's Lookout, as we both needed the loo we stopped at Blanket Leaf picnic area. Found the toliets and Hannah said remmber to lookout for spiders. Then inside I heard Hannah say she could'nt see the bottom of the toilet (we were only in a cublical style wooden hut toliet in the forest) and it really smelt. Next time Hannah needs the loo in the rain forest she's said shes going behind a bush. We found out later that the toliets in the forest are called drop toliets. They are pits in the ground with a toliet over the top.....a drop toliet.
At Teddy's lookout the views were great looking out to the forest with steam rising out of them and to the otherside the Ocean.
We had some lunch in Lorne and watched the surfers ride the waves. Then went to Kennett River in search of Koalas. We were dissapointed on the way up the road as we only saw 2. So we turned around and started to see more and more. In fact we saw over 40 Koalas, sleeping, eating and just chilling in the trees. Koalas sleep for over 20 hours a day and eat the other 4 hours. We could have sat there all day watching them. The last Koala we saw was about 2 meters away from us and Hannah said she was soooooo cute. We named it "Cutey" and it posed for lots of photos.
We carried along the Great Ocean Road, the views were amazing and the waves crashed against the beach. We arrived in to Apollo Bay were we visted the tourist infomation to find some where cheap to stay. As we drove around one of the places looked like a garden shed so we didn't stay there. We ended up at "the Surfside" backpackers right on the beach. It was cheap and clean and as far as we're aware there's no cockatoo's to wake us up.