We had driven down from the woods north east of Melbourne from Marysville, Victoria, around the city’s eastern edge, and then south around Port Phillip. It was 3:30 by the time we’d finished lunch at the Pig & Whistle Pub/Brewery. Our plan was to catch last ferry to Queenscliff, a tourist town at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, scheduled to run at 6pm, which would have been fine, except our GPS calculated 180k to our destination!
I surmised there would be an extra run or two considering the vacationers and all the holiday traffic—but no! No Aussie works late, ESPECIALLY on holidays. Luckily our GPS was wrong and it was only 20k to the terminal.
With plenty of time to spare, we walked the narrow crowded beach, then boarded the very slow Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry; the ride gave us a chance to see countless pink jellyfish and two dolphins in the shallow, teal blue water.
Our challenges continued as we tried to find a motel with a room available for the night. The whole of Australia has time off between Christmas and New Years—any excuse for time off-- so going to one of the country’s biggest sights without a room reservation might not have been the best plan. We headed towards the Great Ocean Road, and settled in Lorne for the night. This tourist/surf town gave us a nice tease of what we had to look forward to for the next morning’s drive.Aussie Word of the Day: esky = cooler
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