Jase and Jess

The XJR has been measured up for the pillion rails.

Should look sweet.

Cheers Gos!

We’ve gone through and re-jigged the route we’re taking.

Means we can take an extra night, and have a day trip around Halls Gaps and the Grampians.

We’ve also worked out a final draft on the accomodation side of things:

Caravan parks

Eden: ‘Garden of eden’ Powered site - $26 per night, “Banyan” Cabin - $60/n (02) 6496 1172

Bairnsdale: “Bairnsdale Holiday Park’ Powered site - $30 per night, “Ensuite Cabin” - $60/n - (03) 51524066

Foster: www.longjettycaravanpark.com.au Ensuite Cabin - $70/n 03 5688 1233

Torquay: ‘www.torquayholidayresort.com.au’ Economy Cabin $63/n 03 5261 2493

Port Fairy - ‘Belfast Cove Caravan Park’ - ensuite cabin $65 - $100/n 1800 008 816

Halls Gap www.grampiansgardens.com.au “Park Unit” - $66/n - 2 nights

Bendigo www.centralcitycaravanpark.com.au “Budget Ensuite Cabin” $62/night

Albury http://www.borderlandholidaypark.com.au “Budget Cabin” $55/n

Adjust map for:

Appollo Bay

Ballarat

Beechworth

Dont forget: Cape Otway and the Petrified Forrest at Portland

After a crappy night sleep two grumpy people checked out of the “seediest room in history”

We decided to continue on hour way and head straight to Apollo Bay.

This was meant to be the best run of the entire trip, however this proved to be a horrible run, what would have normally been a bikers fantasy was a complete nightmare.

The roads were wet , slippery and dangerous and the trip was slow and tedious making for an unpleasant and scary trip down.

However once we reached Apollo Bay the sun was appearing and things were looking slightly better.

We stopped off for a coffee and some petrol at a near by service station and found a whole heap of little critters made out of scrap metal in the gardens, I especially like the chickens.

The critters from Levins Hill

We decided that we wanted to have a look at the Otway Fly Tree Top walk; it’s an incredible piece of engineering that affords a tree top view from all sides of the canopy and rainforest, it was an absolutely stunning experience.

A Yellow breasted Robin - The view from the top of the Otway Fly - A moss covered tree from the Otway Fly

From there onto the 12 Apostles at Port Campbell, this was one of the parts of the trip we were really looking forward to, and we weren’t disappointed.

The apostles really are magnificent, the sheer size, and enormity of them was extremely impressive and the violent coast line and harsh conditions made a perfect back drop for these huge pillars of stone…..Jason must of taken a least 30 shots.

The views of the 12 Apostles

From there onto the London bridge, impressive in it’s own right, it didn’t match the scale of the and sheer mass of the apostles , although we still took as many shots as time would allow…

The London Bridge

We were fighting against dusk at this point so we headed straight for our accommodation; we were treated to hours of boring straight roads and unchanging scenery, sore necks and severely aching buttocks.

We were delighted when we found that our cabin in Port Fairy was fabulous, it was large with heating and an electric blanket…bliss

We found the only food available after 8 pm in town ate it and crashed into a deep (and well deserved sleep) ready for the next stretch.