Our trip along the Great Ocean Road was suppost to be one of sunshine and enjoying the many long and wild beaches while we were there.

When we hit Geelong, the weather was very nice and balming, so we did our drive to Torquey beach and loved the sand the breeze and the warm Sunny weather on our skin on saturday afternoon. Sunday we went to a small town called “Little River” with a reason. But once we got there the town was having a fair to support the locale school and it was one big market and everyone walked around with a big smile on there face, of course we joined them straight away. It turned out to be a lovely time with lots of extra information about the town and also about “ the little River Band” . and that my friends was the reason why we went there in the first place to answer a question from Carl, our drummer, if the name of the band and the town had something in common. The answer, yes it das. One story goes as follows, one or two of the band members lived in this area and so the name was formed after they where not allowed to use the name “ Mississippi” because the was al ready in use in the USA. The other story is, that one fine Sunny day the band was on his way towards Melbourne to perform there and being without a name they noticed the name of the town and thought it would be a big laugh if they went from the big river Mississippi to “ the Little River Band” ., and so they did. We even got taken into an small room in the Mecanics Hall were they keep all kind of stuff of the band, who by the way did work with Johnny Farnham, but did not like him as the tale tells us.

After a drive around an al lot of pics we went to the old bleu stone bridge and on the way back to Geelong over the old road we did see a lot of old cars as a bonus of the day.

In Geelong we walked along the boulevard enjoyed the warm weather nice food and drinks before heading back to the van to make our dinner together. On Monday we moved on to our prebooked spot in Apollo Bay reaching it with nice Sunny weather to wake up next morning in a heavy fog which started to rain out but took away our visibility completly. So we decided to hit the road and drove into the mountains towards Colac and after about klicks the sunshine returned again. Driving back lateron gave us the fog back again as well. All night it rained and by morning it was fogged up again like a cold winters day in Holland, so no beach day . we moved on , just by car, to the main things along the Great Ocean Road, the 12 rocks, which have only 9 left over, but have about 10.000 little people with funny eyes and no snece of wat they are doing, running around like crazy, which is an atraction by it self. (BTW , there is a story going around that some unknowen nameless group took two of them down, in the past, just because it was a christian thing, the 12 apostels ).

Friday and Saturday turned out to be two lovely days with warm weather and lots of sunshine so we drove back from Warrnambool to do the big part of the G.O.R. again and took a lot of pics again at the same spots but with a different light to it. We prolonged our stay in Warrnambool so we could spent the whole Sunday on the road again, and we did. For a start we hopped on the heliflights to see the coastline from above, wat a joy it was and all-in perfect sunshine again. After this fantastic flight we moved on to the eco wildlofepark at Princetown to walk over a big spread and see all the Austraian icons close up.

While we sitting in our annex enjoying a drink and writing our storys, it started to rain like a big storm, but we are happy after the we spent on this part of the coast even dough we did not get to lay on the beach and enjoy the sunshine on our bodys.

But we get more coastline ahead of us so you never know.