Princetown and the great ocean road

I guess our holiday really started when we left balnarring and we set off towards Princetown ,a tiny little town about 15minutes away from Port Campell. We left as the heat wave had just started to grip a lot of Australia and it was becoming clear as the temperature got warmer that Paddy the Patrol wasn't a. Fan of the heat. We arrived at the rec reserve at about 3ish in the afternoon, which was perfect timing just before the crowds of German and French and basically all the other Europeans came in there painted minivans, I must admit they don't seem at all appealing as a holiday van but each to their own.

It just so happened that two minutes before us another couple had turned up and we found ourselves camped next to them. Straight away Makenzie became friends with their three little girls the youngest being 4 and oldest 8. Over the next three days the girls played and watched movies and had fun and Laura and I got to know ash and Rowena who were from Karratha and were half way round on their big lap.

 

 

We decided on our first full day to do some of the sights so we travelled past Peterborough and took in the sights of the bay of Islands and bay of martyrs then took some more photos at a place called the grotto before we realised how hot it was getting. We decided then to head into Port Campbell to get some lunch and cool off for a while. Luckily as we finished lunch the cloud appeared and it cool of enough to allow Makenzie to have a swim at what was a really nice beach although for me the water felt like it was a recently unfrozen glacier but Makenzie loved it.

Friday was supposed to be a scorcher  going by the weather app so we decided a hour and a half drive either way to Apollo bay and a pub meal was the best way to beat the heat so off we set and drove through the beautiful otway ranges and found what looked like the only shady car park in the town.  We sat and had a nice pub meal and then realised we had the pub to our selves so decided to book a few more nights ahead and plan our next part of the trip. When the weather did the same as the day before and cooled off we freaked home via the cape otway lighthouse which was ok but was pretty darn expensive. As we left there I spotted a 4wd track and made a detour, now this was by no means a difficult track but it was fun getting the car dirty. 

 

While sitting at the pub in Apollo bay we realised we were starting to run low on supplies and as the next place we are to camp is a tiny town on the border with no drinking water at the park we made a decision to change parks and now our next leg will be at mt gambier so until then ciao.