Day 4 in Aust
DAY FOUR - GREAT OCEAN ROAD
In the morning, we drove to Sorrento Pier (from Philip Island) to take the car ferry to Queenscliff, from which we can drive along the Great Ocean Road. one car costs $48 to get on the ferry and each passenger needs to pay $7.50, so it's a total of AUD$78 just to cross over to Queenscliff.
waiting to get on the car ferry
we pushed a hungry MT to get timtam from the other car and locked him out. haha! he was standing in the strong, cold and chilly wind for almost one minute trying to get us to open the door for him. haha we were rolling on our seats laughing. Lol.
we spent about an hour on the ferry, on which we played Rummy'Up. the forfeit was for the loser (the last person with the most cards left) to go onto the deck and stand for one minute. Lol. qianhao lost and he had to stand in the cold for one minute! haha i went up for a while before the game, and it was f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g!
we took maps at Queenscliff info centre and drove over to town Torquay for lunch.
there wasnt much (cheap) food to eat, so we settled for fish'n'chips at this seafood place. we bought two family sets and because there wasnt any place to sit in the seafood place (it's like some fresh fish/seafood store), we went back to our cars to eat. and cos the guy packed all the flakes (they call the fish that) n chips, potato cakes, dimsim (their version of dim sum) and drinks in one huge box, we stood outside our cars, took the food and munched on it. haha. pathetic sight!
On the road -- Driver Quek and his beanie
Fishermen's Beach
same place
Quek thinks he's a bird haha.. just cos he's also in white
Quek thinks he's a bird haha.. just cos he's also in white
view of the vast ocean at Torquay's Fishermen Beach
JUMP!
those black dots are people SURFING in the winter!
Then we went over to Aireys Inlet to view the Split Point lighthouse. it's really tall.. at the bottom of the lighthouse, i raised my head and i couldnt see the top of it.. woooo...
the Split Point Lighthouse in the background
Eagle Rock marine sanctuary -- as we walked down from the lighthouse, nearer to the sea
not sure if the name of that rock is Eagle Rock
again, the lighthouse.
quek n gen
with the lighthouse -- zeng, quek, hong, van, gen
stopped over for a while at Eastern View
another surfer!
along the road, in the car (risked losing my arm to take photos during the whole road trip haha)
so we went over to Lorne to find our hostel :) the YHA was really great!! our accommodation was a beautiful cottage and i slept at the attic! :D there was a window beside my bed (i slept at the top bunk) and when i woke up in the morning the next day, it was beautiful~ but using the toilet is really troublesome cos it's outside our cottage and shared with a few other people. so it's freezing cold, esp early in the morning. haha.
the cottage at the back is our home for the night! (this was actually taken the next morning cos the sun has already set when we reached)
Jetty at Lorne
our dinner was pizza and chicken. ahhh it's roast chicken again. ha. but everyone was gorging on the coleslaw, cos we hardly eat any veggies, except the occasional apples/ strawberries we eat. haha.
as per normal, we went out to grab some groceries from the nearby store. and quek (who needs to join alcoholic anonymous soon) bought 2 bottles of wine.
it was nice and warm at the attic cos "hot air rises, cold air sinks"! remember? haha :) hmmm, i love Lorne!
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