Gedye/Gaylord Road Trip Part V:
The Otway Peninsula
April 2004
 

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Breakfast time in the house at Apollo Bay. The girls updated their travel journals, and Weston worked on his Powerpoint of the trip.

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We headed up into the hills. First stop was a short hike to Hopetoun Falls.

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Then it was on to the big trees and the amazing engineering of the...

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Otway Fly Treetop Walk. The catwalks are 20-30m above the forest floor, and the tower stands a full 45m in the air. I got a little queasy corkscrewing up the tower, but the view from the top -- from anywhere actually -- is spectacular.

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Later in the restaurant: no living thing was harmed to make this drink blue.

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Obligingly attractive cattle on the road east.

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At 3pm we stopped for a bit of beach art and a swim at the Wye River beach.  I taught the kids to body surf.  Numbness must have set in quickly, as we stayed in the water for the best part of an hour.

That was to be our last day together. We had dinner in Lorne and then spent the night in Geelong. The Gaylords left for a morning flight home, and with them went the good weather. All that was left for the Gedyes was a wet and windy weekend in Melbourne.