Road Trip With Mum to the Bellarine Peninsula

 After my three nights with Kerrie, I picked up a hire car and headed out to pick up mum at Springvale. We then drove to Gary and Arlene's at Eyensbury where we spent the night with them. Was nice to catch up with them and also Matthew and Ben. Gary took us out that night to The Homestead for dinner.

The next morning after chatting with Arlene mum and I headed off, first stop was just past Torquay where we visited the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie, and enjoyed a hot chocolate and checked out the chocolates for sale.

Then we headed to Barwon Heads where we had booked accommodation for two nights in a very comfortable little unit. The weather was lovely for a winter's day in Melbourne, we headed out for a drive to get our bearings. This was a lookout over Ocean Grove.

We then headed down to the beach, which had a ramp right down to the beach so no stairs and enjoyed a walk along the beach, it was a lovely spot.

The next morning was lovely and sunny in Barwon Heads, we headed off for a drive around the Peninsula, first stop was some lovely farmers markets, then we headed to Portarlington which is at the northern part of the peninsula, whereas we were staying down south, About half way across we ran into thick fog which stayed with us all the time at Portarlington. We walked out on the jetty and breakwater.

Finally after heading back south along the eastern side of the peninsula the fog lifted and the sun came out. We stopped off just near Queenscliff at Swan Bay and enjoyed the calm of the bay and some lovely sunshine. We had called in to look at the Marine Life Education Centre but it was closed. However they had some signs around explaining the importance of the area for bird life and how there was one bird that came from Siberia every year to nest! It was a lovely spot and nice just sitting in the sunshine.

Then we headed into Queenscliff, which was a lovely seaside town with lots of old buildings. We enjoyed some lunch at one of the cafes, had a wander around and a bit of a drive, found some local fish to buy for dinner.

Then we headed back towards Barwon Heads via Port Lonsdale, was a good spot to look across to Port Nepean across the other side of the Heads into Port Phillip Bay

 Another walk out along a jetty, lots of people fishing on this jetty.

We walked around the Port Lonsdale Lighthouse

Then headed back to our little unit for the night. Sunday morning we headed home to mum's and Monday after helping mum around her unit I headed to the airport for the flight home to Canberra. It was a lovely week away, catching up with my friend Kerrie then a little road trip to mum to an area neither of us had really spent much time in.