Packed and on the road in under two hours. Overnight the temp had dropped to under 4 deg, however the morning was a bit brighter with the the temp up to 8 deg. We were over the border into Victoria driving the coastal road to Portland. More low laying flat land with depression visible everywhere in the fields with many fenced off for safety. They landscape was very green with plenty of dairy cows and the pine forests in abundance for mile after mile.
Drove into Portland stopping off at the beach front which all looked pretty bleak in the cold windy rain. Drove on to Port Fairy which had many more tourists evident and in the summer and warmer months is obviously a very popular place.
Went on to Warrnambool which we drove through without stopping. Further along we made a stop at the local cheese factory and the Devondale milk processing plant. From here on we joined the Great Ocean Road stopping, and looking at and walking around the Bay of Islands,
The Grotto,London Bridge (now fallen) The Arch and finally the 12 Apostles, where it had been transformed with a (yet to be opened tourist information bureau), a new underpass of the road and a walkway to the viewing platforms to see the
12 Apostles. Once again it had all changed over the last 10 years when we previously just pulled off the road to a car park and on to the viewing platform.
We continued to drive in the rain over the Ottway Ranges on narrow winding,mountainous roads through more pine plantations and down into Apollo Bay where we stopped at the Apollo Bay Bay Recreation Reserve park for the night.
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