Saturday, October 29, 2011

Touring Trip from Warrnambool to home via the Great Ocean Road.

I made my touring debut last week with a ride from Warnambool/Port Fairy back along the GOR to Melbourne. It was great fun in conditions that included everything from solid SE head winds on day 3 from Warny to Port Campbell, chilly SW winds and rain all day on day 4 to Lavers Hill, and a variety of much nicer days thereafter.
Here's a few more pics from the trip....



Tower Hill between Port Fairy and Warrnambool..


'The Rider' (Justin) atop 'Everest'....well Tower Hill, anyway....


Near Bay of Islands .... I think !



Somewhere else along that stretch...


At Peterborough ...

 ...again...

The Rider approaches....at Peterborough ...


Funnily enough, no photos were taken on the day to Lavers Hill - wet, windy, cold and hilly all the way. But this guy and a few of his mates were there to greet us !! More suited to the conditions, I'm sure !!


This was on the descent to the Glenaire Valley...looking back up the hill towards Laver's Hill...


 ...and looking the other way along the coast....


...same place....

 

After climbing steeply from the Valley we eventually descended towards Apollo Bay - it's there on the distant horizon...

 Amazingly, that small container sitting loose on my rear carrier stayed there for about 2kms of high speed descending from a quick food stop further back !!


We stayed at the Apollo Bay YHA which was very nice, but I forgot to take a pic .... but the next night we made Lorne and stayed at the venerable Lorne Hotel, below ..



We went down to Kaos Cafe for the breakfast of champions.... there was so much muesli I was able to fill my 'lucky' container with some for later !! Look at the size of that bowl ....


A couple of pics at Cape Patton... with and without the view spoiled...





We made it to Torquay on Thursday and met my mate Peter and then rode with him onto Ocean Grove to stay the night at his place ...




 Pete made beef and cous cous with baked vegies for dinner - nom-nom ....

After a great night with Pete at Ocean Grove we rode to Queenscliff, crossed on the ferry to Sorrento and rode up to Frankston and the train back home. 

It was a great week and lots of fun !!

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