Our next visit was to Tess who lived in a little country town called Pomborneit. After catching up over a drink we were joined by her mum and cousin and had a wonderful roast dinner that Tess had cooked for us. After putting the kids to bed Tess, Craig and I got into her 10 person outdoor spa, which couldn't be more appropriate for us Elphs and we enjoyed a few drinks under the stars.

After breakfast the kids helped Tess around the farm and Adam got a ride on the quad bike.  We headed in to Camperdown to have a look around and then went for a drive up Mt Laura and checked out the view.  When we got back I whipped up a cob loaf dip and that night we had a BBQ dinner.  Craig got in the spa while us two girls sat around and chatted to him. I retired to bed and Craig and Tess sat up to watch the tennis.

We packed up from Tess’s and headed towards our next destination “The Great Ocean Road”.  By chance we passed the Rippon’s  on the road so we pulled over to discuss our plans for the day.  They were on their way to do the Triplet Falls walk so we followed them in along a windy dirt road that seemed to take forever.  I had woken up with Gastro that morning so I did not cope with the drive too well.   Everyone except for me went on the walk and Craig got some photos of the kids at the base of some amazing Mountain Ash trees.  We then headed to our next camp spot Aire Beach.

 

 

 

At this camp site there were two koalas hanging around in the trees sleeping and eating.  It was becoming common place for us to see koalas in the wild.  As it was coming up to the Australia day weekend there were many people camping with their Australian flags and cans of VB.  We started up a game of cricket which seemed to attract all of the other kids around the camp site which was great fun. 

 

One day Craig and Brett kayaked down to the ocean while the 6 kids and I walked along the sandy track to meet them. The ocean was really rough and there was no way we were going swimming in that so the kids amused themselves running up some very steep sand hills and running down them again really fast. They thought it was unreal. 

 

 

 We also went along the Great Ocean Walk for a few Km’s and encountered some fantastic views.  If you were to walk the whole Great Ocean walk it would take you 9 days to complete.