We have reached SouthAustralia

We rode out of our home on a lovely sunny day with a little wind, working our way along the Mornington Peninsula to Sorrento to catch the ferry to Queenscliff and then to Ocean Grove where Heather's sister Judith was waiting with a hot dinner and a shower.  Next day we headed for the Great Ocean Road, at Lorne we met up with Alice and Perry, Carmen's inlaws, who also offered up their hospitality. From Lorne to Apollo Bay introduced us to some of the hills we were expecting,,beautiful views of the bay and vey narrow roads,  we arrived just in time to get t,he tent up as the weather broke.  The weather enforced a rest day.  With our eye on the weather we set off from Apollo Bay, many hills and beautiful ferns and gums alaong the way, when we reached Beech Forrest the heavens opened and we were drenched, we finally had to give up in the name of safety and camped behind a freindly farmers house at Glenaire.  The next day was the climb up Lavers Hill which is gruelling, on the way up we met Chris who comes from Victor Harbour and was riding around Australia on his own.  An exhastedd pair we stunbled into the Lavers Hill pub just as the Grand Final was starting so to celebrate our effort in reaching the top we had a drink and watched the football with the localss on a flat screen TV someone had brought to the pub, we had a great afternoon, especially since Geelong won.
Downhill was as scary as the effort was to go up the hill and we were happy to reach PPeterborough.   From Peteerborough he rode to Warrnabool, on flat roads bike lanes through farming country, where we met more cyclist from France and the Netherlands.  Portlnd was beckoning as  Heather's brother Lionel and his wife Lyn wree waiting for us, so we peddled 100 klms that day our longest day yet.   We had a rest day in Portland, then on the road again.  We crossed into South Australia after a stop over in Nelson a lovley fishing port and after a day of hills and dales we have arrived in Mount Gambier..