Good Friday came and went with no dramas - hallelujah!  Had a nice sleep-in after a scrappy night.  Why still awake at 01.15?  Have no idea, but was a pain in the poobag.  So after a quick brekky, onto the beach and decided to do the cliff walk. Quite spekky with a great view of the township and coastline. Also got to check out the reefs in the harbour and where is a good safe place to snorkel along with a bit of advice from the local surf club.  Though it seems that Easter Sat and Sun will be larger swells. Another pain the poobag! Oh well.  Decision was made not to snorkel today, but get the bearings and visit the Info centre, scoot up to Timboon and source some cheese and chockies and just enjoy the drive through the countryside.  Ended up travelling down to Peterborough. Beautiful beaches, but no life in the old town. What gives with that? A general store and a newsagent and the Fire Brigade truck and that's town! Definitely a seaside, holiday home town, but that's it.  More life in little Port Campbell and definitely some good eateries in this little burgh.

Had the mandatory Timboon Fine Ice Cream (gluten free and egg free, for those who need to know!) Yummy.  Had a nice picnic is the old forest at Timboon as well.

Travelled along the Great Ocean Road and checked outh the coastline - so wild and windy, beautiful and treacherous.  You can almost imagine the shipwrecks occurring.  Visited the little cemetery at Loch Ard Gorge - so tragic to see a whole family, father, mother two sisters and two brothers, wiped out in a shipwreck with the only survivor being one of the daughters, Eva Carmichael, who was rescued by a Tom Pearce who was given a bravery medal in front of 5,000 people at Melbourne Town Hall. Quite a celebrity for those times. But how tragic to lose your whole family. Eva Carmichael returned to Ireland after 3 months never to return.  Why would you?

Also went for a very nice helicopter flight over the 12 Apostles, Port Campbell, Loch Ard Gorge and London Bridge (which is no longer as it has now dropped into the ocean).

Good walks, nice drive and home to the Taj for a little R&R.

So "god nachtz'from Port Campbell until tomorrow.  Just a little difficulty here with WIFI which drops out intermittently, so having trouble loading photos. Also no TV unless one has a Sat Dish.  (Hmm, note to self, need to get a Sat Dish!)  PS: Another note to self: where is my microwaver that I bought for the van? I know I took it out before toddling off to NT, but now I don't know where it is!  Jaysus!

One thing I like about old towns is the cemeteries.  There is so much history and events that can be gleaned from headstones; the tragedy of illness that can take out whole families and even how life span has improved. So many early settlers died at early ages with not many making it passed their 60s. Have added a couple for interest - a man and is daughter who died within 3 weeks of each other - illness, possibly influenza outbreak? Another of a lady named Ruth Tregea who lost 3 of her children. So sad. Interestingly, this group of graves belonging to the Tregea family in Port Campbell has newer graves in good condition, but the older graves have been left to ivy and overgrowth of plants and they are in disrepair. Shame as the history of the family is all on the headstones.  Strangely, I was giving some money to the Good Friday Appeal at Timboon, and one of the roadside collectors was a young boy of 8 years, who has his name on the tin; it was Tregea!  Pity that he does not know that his ancestors' graves are uncared for and they are the people he came from.