Great Ocean Road: Monday 7 March

[minigolf]

Late notice I know, but if you can get to the Shell on the city side of the West Gate Freeway (near Todd Rd) by 10am tomorrow you'd be most welcome. We plan to be back in Melbourne by around 4pm.

I'll also be seeing some of you at the Motor Show tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock.



Cheers Liam

[poki]

Have a great time Liam. (and anyone else lucky enough to be able to go)

[MickyD]

Have fun

(I just got out of bed, 4 x 4:45am wake ups in a a row for the GP is a bit much for this little black duck)

[Todd!]

I should be ther too Catch you tonight

[CanberraCooperS]

Ahhhh Motor show and great ocean road... after the GP... dammm im going to have to plan my weekends better

[2bob]

Quote: Originally Posted by CanberraCooperS

Ahhhh Motor show and great ocean road... after the GP... dammm im going to have to plan my weekends better

Dont worry it will happen next time !!

[Todd!]

Yeah! Get on down here... you are all more than welcoemin the garden state

[Tit]

Damn! All I managed was Melb-Cbr-Syd worth of boring ol' Hume Highway....hope you had fun Liam!

My drive was zzz....but I'm home now....

(I wannnnaaaa stayyy in Melbourne!!!! )

[FUNSIZE]

Are there some great photos yet?
Can we expect some?

[minigolf]

There'll be a few pics, not many though. Oddly enough there weren't many photo opportunities.

Lorne-Apollo Bay is da biz.

[minigolf]

Here's some pics...


Bells Beach


Stumpy's new wheels/brakes


Hmm, someone must have brought the safety car out


Apollo Bay (The Vista Cafe was great btw)


Oh look at that, there is a view on this road

[Todd!]

I take it by the traffic shot you didnt get much of a fang? Did you come back inland? What did you think between Lorne and Apollo Bay?

[minigolf]

There was a lot of roadworks happening, it wasn't too bad other than the bank up every now and then. The above shot was taken between Torquay and Lorne. Thankfully after Lorne there was less traffic, although there were at least 4 stops due to roadworks. Jim (Benz coupe) and I were able to get past most of the traffic between Lorne and Apollo Bay in order to get some good driving in, but Stumpy and Pete (silver GTI) weren't so lucky.

On the way back (same route) I overtook about 6 cars in one go just out of Apollo Bay and as a result was able to have a pretty free run through to Lorne, well, except for the bus and truck which I did get past eventually. I was even lucky enough to not have to stop at two of the roadwork points, whereas the other guys, already stuck behind traffic, had to stop at all 4 roadwork points. We met up again on the other side of Geelong at the BP service centre and I had a wait of over 10 mins for the others.

Lorne-Apollo Bay is superb.

On the way home yesterday we went via Black Spur past Healesville, and I could not get over how billiard table smooth the road was. I was pushing reasonably hard but a bit conservative with mrs minigolf in the car. Then afterwards she says to me, "that wasn't too bad, you could go a bit quicker next time!"

[Todd!]

Heheehe - good stories! Sounds like I missed a corker Next time

[FUNSIZE]

Nice photos...

Thanks for sharing