Saturday Jan 3, 2025 Warrnambool to Melbourne via Great Ocean Road

Today we drove back toward Melbourne, where our ship will leave from. Greg and Vicki picked a sweet spot on this southern shore of Australia to show us. The twisty road took us along several scenic pull offs to see the surf and the beautiful rock formations the ocean has carved into the shore.

We sat by the water and had date scones and coffee overlooking the ocean in Warrnambool. All morning there was little traffic so we had the shore pretty much to ourselves. At the end of the day the traffic picked up as we got closer to Melbourne, but they were all going the other way so we had no delays.

Lunch stop at the southernmost bar in Australia and split burgers and fries, and an ice cream stop later in the afternoon. It is still a bit confusing being in the southern hemisphere where it's summer in January but it is indeed beach season in this part of Australia.

We got to Melbourne around 5 or 6 o'clock, freshened up in our Novotel hotel rooms and then met up and had dinner on South Wharf. Nice weather the entire two days we have been here. 

It was wonderful to catch up with Vicki and Greg, who were our daughter's "extra parents" for six months back in 2007. They are warm wonderful, generous people and we hope to be able to spend more time someday with them again.