Day Nine

A whirlwind morning trying to get out of the Novotel Glen Waverly.by 7:30. Just met Peter downstairs with no minutes to spare. The day started rainy and a little cold. But as we drove down by downtown, the clouds broke and the rest of the day gave us sunshine and 60-65 degree weather.

We hugged the coastline for more breathtaking scenery. The “Great Ocean Road” provided us many photo-ops and lookouts over sheer cliffs and aqua-blue waves and windy whitecaps. The beaches are know worldwide and the surfing capital of the world. Many surf shops .

We spent the second half of the day tours the "Twelve Apostles." These are a series of offshore rock formations that sit hundreds of yards from the shoreline and protrude over a hundred yards into the air.

We decided to be daring and took a helicopter tour which lasted about 20 minutes flying up and down the coastline. We took some awesome images but they are on Peter's camera, so we will have to wait until we get them off his camera.

Here is a shot from my digital camera. We were very high up at this point.

We are now in our hotel room, after a nice dinner at a local pub. Peter has us watching a cricket game on TV. I am blogging and Bill is studying for a Bible study he has next week. Tomorrow we plan to take it easy. Late breakfast and an easy drive to the airport hotel. We should see some cool country on the way and have lunch with Peter's daughter at university.