090911 to 13 Melbourne Trip 3/3

Melbourne Trip Part 3/3
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11 Sept, Friday:
Paul is on leave today. After YowCH returned the rented car to Hertz, both families went to Geelong for lunch, then to Cape Otway for the Cape Otway Lighthouse. Paul and Alison were driving both the cars. YowCH was navigating and it was quite bad to have trusted the GPS route which led us into one Wild Dog Road which was about 8km of unpaved gravel road along the hill sides before reaching the lighthouse.

West Gate Bridge on the way to Geelong
Bollards at Geelong
More bollards at Geelong
Hannah and Esther
Lighthouse keeper's house

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Sun set at Cape Otway

Looking up, shooting down
Shooting down, shot up, by Paul
Cape Otway Lighthouse (with filter)
Two breast-feeding mothers

After Cape Otway, we drove on to Macka’s Farm outside Princetown where we will spend the next two nights. Dinner was pizza bought from Nico’s at Port Campbell.
Reaching Macka's farm just as the sun sets
Pizza from Nico's
Clear starry sky

12 Sept, Saturday:
We woke early in the morning for cow milking and animals feeding.
Dairy cow
Sow and piglets
The milk is drinkable, but this is for the lambs
Children on the hay stack

Then we went out to the Great Ocean Road for sight-seeing. Gibson Steps, The Twelve Apostles (previously Sow and Piglets), Port Campbell for lunch, The Arch, London Bridge, The Grotto and Loch Ard Gorge, before returning to Macka’s Farm.
Gibson Steps
Going down Gibson Steps
Paul doing the Singapore Girl advert thing (SIA poster), Gibson Steps
Yows at The Twelve Apostles
Ngs at The Twelve Apostles
The Twelve Apostles
YowCH and Grace overlooking Port Campbell, thanks to Alison
The Arch
The Arch

London Bridge
Joseph at London Bridge
The Grotto
The Grotto
The Grotto
Blow-hole
Loch Ard Gorge

A panoramic view:
Loch Ard Gorge - Click for larger photo

Thank God, this is the largest road kill we had, but we saw several dead kangaroos and numerous smaller animals
Loch Ard Gorge

We then had hamburgers for dinner, bought from Princetown, while the children had some fun on the carts.
Macka's Farm from the road
Carts going downhill

Hamburgers from Princetown for dinner

13 Sept, Sunday:
YowCH woke early to pick up the fresh farm eggs for breakfast, and then see the milking and feeding again. After breakfast, we set off for Warrnambool but stopped at The Twelve Apostles again as the lighting was better than the cloudy previous day.
Fresh farm eggs, we took nine and paid $2
Automated milking machine
Milk storage
Esther and David loves the lambs
Paul frying the fresh farm eggs with SIA butter
Ngs at The Twelve Apostles again
Yows at the Twelve Apostles again
The Twelve Apostles with better lighting and some computer magic
David and Nathaniel

After a quick refill at Port Campbell, we reached Logans Beach at Warrnambool and enjoyed watching the 10 to 15 southern right whales dancing within 150m of the beach. It seems that early Sept is good season and only once every three years the whales come in large numbers.
Refilling at Port Campbell
View at Logans Beach, Warrnambool
The Ngs watching the whales
YowCH's 4kg of lens and tripod just for this
Southern right whale, jumping out of the water!

That's Nate whale-watching
We took a new road by-passing Geelong back to Melbourne
One last look at Melbourne city

After a long drive back to Melbourne, we did our final packing. The Ngs then brought us for dinner at DiCaprio Italian Restaurant just heading to the airport to fly back to Singapore.
Leaving Melbourne

Thank God for a wonderful holiday trip and good fellowship time with the Ngs.

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5 Responses to “090911 to 13 Melbourne Trip 3/3”

  1. P Ng // Sep 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM

    Beautiful pictures. Wonderful memories I hope.

  2. yowch // Sep 20, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    Paul, 2/3 of the memories are shared with your family.

    Thanks for the great effort in hosting us and driving us around. Again, apologies for Wild Dog Road, stupid GPS routing.

  3. Mum and Dad // Sep 20, 2009 at 9:27 PM

    Lovely pictures. Memorable times for the family.
    Thank you, Lord.

  4. quincy // Sep 21, 2009 at 9:02 PM

    Paul’s eggs look … .crispy

  5. yowch // Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27 AM

    That’s what happens when you brought no oil, has no non-stick pan and has to rely on butter taken off the airline meal to fry the eggs.

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