Once we packed up and checked out of Lorne, we made our way to Queenscliff, Victoria to take the ferry over to Sorrento, then through the Mornington Peninsula and around to Phillip Island.
We stopped by Bells Beach along the way. It's a well renowned surf beach in Victoria.
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Bells Beach, Victoria - renowned surf beach
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| On the ferry over to Sorrento |
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| On the ferry over to Sorrento, beautiful! |
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| Arriving at Sorrento |
I really liked Sorrento, even though we were only there for less than an hour. It's a pretty place and reminds me a little bit of Vancouver. We grabbed some lunch from the local bakery, which was very busy and had a line up out the door!
Then we drove through the peninsula and tried to take the scenic route along the coast. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of the drive. From there, it was about a 2 hour drive to get to Phillip Island.
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| Busy bakery |
We found a nice little backpacker (hostel) called The Island Accomodation and stayed in 'The Little Penguin' room haha. We checked in and then went out for some sight seeing. Shane hasn't been to Phillip Island before and this will be my second time (you can read about my first time experience
here). At Nobbies, we saw a little penguin sleeping in its little hut which was cool! The last time I saw them was during the penguin parade. So since Shane got to see a penguin in the wild, he didn't want to pay to see the penguin parade that evening.. lol. Then we went into the town center to have a look around, and also got some groceries to make dinner back at the backpackers.
The next day we did a little bit more exploring of the rest of the island and tried to check out at all the points on the visitor map guide. We saw Pyramid Rock, Church Hill Islands, a couple other spots, finished with the Chocolate Factory!
Then we made our way to Foster, Victoria to meet up with Sosan and the family, about an hour and a half drive. We met them in Foster because we all wanted to go to Wilsons Promontory (also my second time there as part of the Phillip Island tour) which is about a 40 minute drive. This time I got to appreciate the scenic views on the way because I fell asleep on the bus last time!
The day was quite overcast and cool, luckily it didn't rain on us and we had periods where the sun peeked through. We drove to the most southern part we could by car and hung out at Norman Beach four a couple hours. If we wanted to hit the most southern point of Australia we would have had to hike, which we were not prepared to do and with Aria it would have been a little difficult. So we just had some fun on the beach! That part of Victoria reminds me a lot of Alberta and the Kananaskis area, because it is so lush and mountainous.
When we had enough of the coldness and sand, we headed back to Foster, roamed around the little town, got some dinner, and stayed the night there. Shane and I took off early the next morning because we had to return the car rental. Then we walked around the city, had some pho for lunch, walked around some more and a couple beers at Transport in Federation square before meeting up with Sosan and Matt for dinner at the renowned Lygon Street.
So that pretty much wraps up the road trip section of our trip to Melbourne! It was short but we still got to see a fair bit and fit in as much as we could! ;)
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| Norman Beach |
