23/3/2015
Portland to Warrnambool
After a sleep in and big
breakfast, I drove down to the fresh fish shop to buy a filet for
dinner. The shop wasn't open yet, but one of the guys was filetting
fish already and I got served through the backdoor. Awesome service,
really looking forward to cooking this piece later today.
It was still quite windy
weather with some drizzle and short showers in between.
I found a little coffee
shop along the road and stopped there, as there was also supposed to
be a wine tasting (in this part of Victoria – I didn't know the do
wine here!) next to it. The coffee shop was stylish, the coffee
unfortunately not to my liking. And the cellar door was closed.
Bummer.
Went further to Tower Hillreserve, a huge crater of former volcanoes. Also a game/wildlife
reserve but neither kangaroo, nor emu, nor any other living creature
came out to show itself in this weather. I did several of the walking
trails, climbed up the hill for the lookout (see for yourself in the
photo section – unfortunately not too brilliant) and got slightly
wet on more than one occasions.
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| The side wall of the crater |
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| View from the top of the hill |
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| Tower Hill Reserve |
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| How the volcano and crater was formed |
Driving on, I stopped in
Warrnambool and checked in at a tiny but very nice and friendly
holiday park, went for a run, did some shopping, reading, guitar
practice and prepared the tasty fresh fish filet that I bought in the
morning.
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| Cauliflower with tumeric and heaps of coconut oil, wild caught fresh fish, lebanese cucumber and red capsicum, well and finishing the Spanish Tempranillo |
Distance traveled today:
110 km
24/3/2015
Warrnambool to
Peterborough
Another great, healthy
(even close to bulletproof!) breakfast: 1 avocado, 3 scrambled
organic eggs with some organic, grass-fed butter, green asparagus
slowly and carefully prepared in butter, wild caught salmon and a BP
coffee. Over here, one of the best butters available is Paris Creek.
Lovely taste and ticks all the boxes!
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| Breakfast the way I like it |
First stop was at Logans
beach whale nursery – a viewing platform where you have a good
chance to see Southern Right Whales between May and October nursing
their calves. These up to 15m long whales were hunted by Australian
whalers ('Right' whale to kill) until the 1935 and became almost
extinct, probably less than 1000 whales were left of this species,
with numbers only slowly increasing and with the species still being
endangered to become extinct. Quite windy there today and the wrong
time of the year!
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| Logans Beach Whale Nursery |
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| View from the platform - windy and cold! |
Official start of the
Great Ocean Road – yeah!
On my way to Peterborough,
I stopped very frequently and did quite a few short hikes, visiting:
the Bay of Isles, Bay of
Martyrs, Falls of Halladale, and then drove on to the Grotto and
London Bridge, before returning to Peterborough to check in for the
night.
Absolutely stunning cliffs
and rock formations with magnificent views, despite the weather –
just the photos don't turn out that well.
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| The Grotto |
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| a huge ant carrying a dead one along |
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| The Grotto from above |
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| The London Bridge |
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| The piece that is left from the London Bridge |
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| Amazing plant |
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| Discovered next to my camp spot for the night |
It is quite windy again
today, mostly dry but cloudy and no sun coming through. Hope the
weather gets a bit better tomorrow when I push on further on the
Great Ocean Road.
Distance traveled today:
80 km
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