The past few days…

After promising to get onto the Great Ocean Road’s cheese factory at the end of my last post, I haven’t been on the blog in the past few days…

I’ll start with the cheese (Wallace would be proud of me!!). On Monday we found ‘Apostle Whey Cheese’ easily. It was created five years ago by a husband and wife George and Dianne who are dairy farmers. They went to a cheese maker’s course and set up an operation on their farm where they now produce award winning cheeses at the farm and have a cellar door. We got to sample nine different cheeses and have a good chat to Dianne. We watched a DVD on how they make their cheese and later got to see their herd of 250 cows get milked. (we didn’t stay for the whole 250 though!).

The garden was just gorgeous – I thought how much Trevor’s Mum Wendy would like it – take a look at the monster on the water tank!  There were also poddy calves who loved to lick Harry and my hands, probably tasting salt the way that horses like to. They milked their herd using a rotary dairy which I hadn’t seen since visiting farming customers as a Business Banker with BankWest.

On Tuesday we started towards Melbourne, and drove the incredible ****** Road.

This photo was taken from my passenger seat but doesn’t really show how windy this road was – the hairpin bend in the GPS does give an idea though! Usually I get horrendously carsick on roads like this, but with Trevor towing the caravan he was forced to take it super slowly. We kept seeing signs warning us about oncoming log trucks – we were a bit concerned that if we did encounter one whether we would both fit on the road! Luckily nothing too big came the other way.

 

Later we stopped off for lunch in Lorne. It was delicious! We then took a detour from Lorne inland up to Dean’s Marsh and down to Angelsea. We found the very famous Bells Beach and were there around 5pm when there were lots of people surfing after work.

That night we arrived at my cousin Sharon’s house and parked in her driveway. When we got there, Sharon’s daughter Iris asked Max ‘Do you like to read? Come and look at my new book!!’ – well Max was off, and then Grady asked Harry ‘Do you like DVDs? Come and see mine!’ – Harry scooted off happy as anything. Trevor and I could sit down happily with a cup of tea! Bliss!