Australia - Great Ocean Road - Room With A Glimpse, located near bar with Australian celebrity

This past weekend, we were treated once more by our fabulous hosts Ryan, Lori and baby Aidan to a roadtrip, this time westward along the coastal Great Ocean Road. We skipped part of the Road in favour of keeping the baby happy, arriving in the seaside town of Lorne in 2.5 hours instead of 4.5. We stayed in a sweet apartment suite that was accurately advertised as having an "ocean glimpse". Verily we could see glimpses of the ocean through our window and the trees in the courtyard. Emphasis on glimpse.

Aidan possibly enjoyed our accommodations the most of all since he had plenty of room to run around and lots of lights to insist on having turned on for him. We spent an evening being entertained by our hundredth viewing of Aidan's Baby Einstein videos (the barnyard jamboree was my favourite) and watching VH1's exclusive 80s-related shows. I should also point out that despite Australia's living in the future, they are very retro in that the 80s do not seem to have passed from popularity here. There is a shocking amount of leggings being worn; there are too many mullets to excuse; and there is a hilarious frequency of radioplay of Land Downunder by Men at Work.

That evening after the baby was snoring away, Mehr and I offered to chill with sleeping baby to let Lori and Ryan go out for a game of pool. They went to a local dive only to spend their evening playing pool with Ben Cousins, who is a very famous Aussie Football League player (Aussie rules for the familiar). The Cuz spent the evening calling both of them "Toronto". He'd actually been there (for rehab...), although he definitely thought it was in the States. It's hard to explain but that's a big deal. And super random. Lori and Ryan insisted they would have jealous friends when they told the story later, though the magnitude of this event was a bit lost on Mehr and I.



The next day Lori drove with Mehr and I along the coastal section of the road (with 80s tunes on the radio, you better believe) through the Otways Forest Park and to the iconic Twelve Apostles in Port Campbell National Park, which are pretty much the reason for the Great Ocean Road's existence.



We lucked out on weather, with a beautiful twenty degree day with plenty of sun and much less wind than expected.

The Twelve Apostles were stunning (although puzzlingly, there weren't 12 of them...).



Best sign on the trip was outside a church in Apollo Bay: "The 12 Apostles... Made and Loved by Jesus".



We also drove a little further to the Loch Ard Gorge on Shipwreck Coast and appreciated the difficulty of trying to moor a ship anywhere on this stretch of land, with its big cliffs and tiny tiny crevices leading to bay areas.



After a lazy start on Monday morning we came back to Melbourne to do a last load of laundry and repack before setting off for Western Australia on our Tuesday flight to Perth. We were sad to leave Melbourne (though not the chilly weather). The city has been very good to us and I'm sure there's lots more we could have done and seen with more time and warmer temperatures. Still, onward the adventures go... so watch out Western Australia, we're headed your way!