Easter on the Great Ocean Road

Hi Everyone...hope everyone has been having a great Easter weekend...we hear that the weather in England has been really sunny!

The Easter weekend here is a nice long one as Friday, Monday and Tuesday are all public holidays (Tues is ANZAC day), so we headed down to the Great Ocean Road for a couple of days. The start of the road is about a 2 hour drive from Mordialloc and it basically runs all the way to Adelaide winding along the coast with spectacular views.....however we weren't going to drive quite as far as Adelaide.

Our first stop was Torquay (Bell's Beach) which is the surfing capital of Victoria and this weekend the Rip Curl Pro surf competition was underway. Surfing is a hugely popular sport here and Kelly Slater who is 10 times world champion is a bit of a god. There were very big crowds and we couldn't actually see much but the atmosphere was good (lots of people with bleached hair and wearing Rip Curl, Billabong and Quicksilver clothes....).

After that we headed to Anglesea where we had arranged to stay at the holiday house of Maureen and Michael's friends. Anglesea is NOTHING like the Welsh place....it is a lovely coast site hamlet with a great beach and cool cafes. We went for a walk along the beach and the boys played some AFL (yes....) before we went for some food.

The next day we headed further along the Great Ocean Road taking in various sites - there really are some spectacular views...even the boys managed to tear their eyes away from their laptops in the car :-). Our favourites were the 12 Apostles and the London Bridge......lots of photos on our Flickr site as usual.

However the highlight of the trip was our surf lesson which we had in Apollo Bay. It was something that we just decided to do on the fly...and was great fun. We hired boards and wet suits and despite the weather being a bit dodgy it was brilliant fun. Jack had done it once before over New Year so we were expecting him to be an expert....and actually he was pretty good! The following day the 3 boys hired the gear again and headed out for more fun....this time they all improved and managed to stand up. It makes you realise just how good the professional surfers are...but I think the boys are addicted now!

That's all for now....we are busy planning our next trip - probably skiing....but New Zealand or Victoria...decisions, decisions :-)