Slept ok I think. Had breakfast in the room with leftover milk from Cape Otway (which survived the drive well enough in the esky surrounded with the other cold stuff). Out the door around 9:10.
We stopped at a couple of places - Barwon Heads Bluff and Point Lonsdale Lighthouse before arriving in Queenscliff for the ferry!
View north from Barwon Heads Bluff
View east from Barwon Heads Bluff
Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
Rocks at Point Lonsdale
Photo by Stu
Jetty at Point Lonsdale
Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
Beach at Point Lonsdale
Seagulls at Point Lonsdale
We arrived at the ferry terminal at about 10:40, just in time for the 11:00 ferry. I waited outside to get photos of it arriving, then we drove on. The sweetie decided to just sit in the car while I wandered the ferry. Just as we departed a couple of car alarms went off (even though they said to disable car alarms) and they announced on the intercom for the owner of a black Audi and some other car to go and disable them. Well the Audi owner certainly didn't because when I went down a little while later to bring a snack to the sweetie it went off right next to me (I never touched it!!). Fricken fancy car buttplug owners. Hate. But the rest of the trip was quite fun. I've only rarely caught car ferries so it was pretty cool.
Whale mural at Queenscliff Searoad Ferry wharf
Queenscliff Searoad Ferry
Driving onto the ferry
Queenscliff Searoad Ferry terminal
Queenscliff Searoad Ferry terminal
Murray Tower, Queenscliff White Lighthouse, Queenscliff Black Lighthouse and probably a water tower
Theresa Micronesia and the other Searoad ferry
On the ferry crossing Port Phillip Bay
On top of the Searoad ferry
Interior of the Searoad ferry
Portsea from the ferry
Sorrento from the ferry
Sorrento from the ferry
Sorrento
Stu driving off the ferry (I walked off)
At Sorrento we headed west to see if we could see the fort at Point Nepean, but the road is closed off three kilometres away. There was a shuttle bus but the sweetie didn't feel like waiting around, so we just wandered east again.
Big gun at Point Nepean
We listened to the first episode of Shandee's Story (oh I forgot to mention we listened to all of Jon Ronson's podcast "Things Fell Apart" during the trip last week as well).
We had a few short stops along the way (Grantville jetty for a pitstop, Bourne Creek Trestle Bridge, Eagles Nest lookout) finally arriving in Inverloch around 15:30. It's actually amazing how little of the coast you actually see on Victoria's coast roads. Even if the roads are right on the coast (which is kinda rare) you can't actually see the water because the bush obscures the view.
Beach at Grantville
Seagulls at Grantville
Foreshore at Grantville
View over Kilcunda beaches from Bass Highway
Bourne Creek Trestle Bridge
Kilkunda Beach
Photo by Stu
Top of Bourne Creek Trestle Bridge
Photo by Stu
Rocks and Kilkunda Beach
Bourne Creek Trestle Bridge
Beaches at Cape Paterson
Cliffs at Eagles Nest
Fairy wren at Eagles Nest
Rocks at Eagles Nest
Beach north of Eagles Nest
Stairs down to the beach at Eagles Nest
We dumped all our stuff at the motel, the sweetie had a rest, and I got online to book our next nights' accommodation.
Then we went for a walk to find dinner (fish and chips, the sweetie might have chosen). Ate that in the park then had a look at the beach. Picked up some Caramilk ice creams for the walk back to the motel for blogging/photos.
Street art in Inverloch
Stu and the fish and chips we got for dinner
Beach at Inverloch
Beach at Inverloch
See also my panoramas from Day 12.
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