Motor Home South Australia Part 2

3 We navigate our way out of town and head off on the Great Ocean road. Lots of cute little sea side towns and gorgeous sweeping ocean views, shining sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. We stop to walk on the beach to see if there are shells for our collection on the boat, but it is very windy and cold today and there are no shells, so our beach walk is rather short. We have a sandwich in the camper (how exotic!) and stop for a beer in Apollo Bay. We wanted to try their locally brewed stuff, but a taste test convinced us to go for a brand we know. Next stop is to take a walk at Kennett River to see koala bears, they look so cute and cuddly. One fellow tells us a story of an Asian tourist who throws his camera at his buddy, saying, "take my picture with the bear" and scoops a sleeping koala out of a low branch. The buddy is too stunned by what his friend is doing to take the picture and in the mean time the cuddly little koala has woken up and is now scratching his holder's face off. Lesson - Do not let cute and cuddly fool you. Those claws that they hang in the trees with are very pointy and strong! Oh, but they are soooo cute! We came across one on the ground and he just ambles over to a tree - no big rush to get out of our way or reach. Glen has 100 photos, at least. Now as we drive along, we find that they are very prolific here in this region. Our next stop is Mait's Rest a rain forest walk in the Great Otway National Park.  It is a light 30 minute hike and has lots of beautiful rainforest vegetation, Jurassic Park ferns and trees, cool moist fragrant air. Today is getting pretty packed with "doing stuff", just because it is all very close. We are on the Otway Peninsula now and the site of an old majestic light house, which of course instigates a walk around the grounds and a trip up the light house stairs. There are information people spotted about and we get a low down on the history. Our camp ground tonight is Bimbi Park and we find that we didn't have to make a special trip to see koala's as they live right in the camp ground. This is more what a camp ground should be like, with towering trees and spacious sites. The city caravan parks are basically parking lots with toilet/shower facilities, no ambiance at all.