Hi,

Great effort, enjoy the scenery

Thanks
Robots

Try and go out of the holiday season as the prices for accomodation is very pricey also there are way too many people down that way for their summer holidays.

Also take your time watch for the internation tourists who may go on the wrong side of the road, also take your warm clothes as the weather does change very quickly.

Have a nice time there are lots of nice roads and sites to see, dont ride like a maniac you may get into trouble.

It's hard to predict the traffic but a time when there are less cars is obviously better. Just remember all the mountain roads up in the Otways as well are a great ride if the Great Ocean Road is too busy as I found out one weekend.

Penola (SA). Stayed at the Royal Oak Hotel. Not motorbike friendly, they wouldn't let me park the bike in the back yard. They told me to park it next door in the drive thru bottle shop car park which would be locked overnight, but it never was. And one of the staff knowingly locked me out in the morning while I was carting our gear out to the bike.
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Rode between Penola and Port Fairy today, via Nelson, Portland and Hamilton.  So we took the less travelled roads and didn't see many vehicles all day.  Hard to believe it is a holiday period.  Happy cruising at 90-100km/hr today.  That should all change tomorrow when we hitt he proper GOR.  Found this little old farmhouse off the side of the road about 30km north of Port Fairy:
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Great looking beach at Port Fairy, but only 25c so not warm enough for me to strip down and scare the locals.
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Expect some douch to be coming around the next bend on the wrong side of the road...

I envy you dynoHarley for living in this part of the world. That road from Lavers Hill to Beech Forest to Skenes Creek is bloody awesome! And we didn't see many cars on it.

We have reached our destination intact (Mornington Peninsula), and only saw one crazy driver and one annoying driver.

The crazy driver stopped in the middle of the road on a steep incline just out of Apollo Bay to take photos. They were oblivious to the traffic banked up behind them. Luckily we were travelling the opposite direction.

The annoying driver was a WA plated landcruiser, towing a camper trailer, doing 25km/hr on a 10km windy stretch between Lorne and Anglesea. They refused to use the slow vehicle turnouts and the traffic banked up behind them. And double white lines and plenty of oncoming traffic left no legal way around.

Didn't see anybody driving on the wrong side of the road. But it must be an issue judging by the number of warning signs along the road "Drive on the left in Australia". Good idea gone bad in most cases, since they put the signs on the left side oft he road. If you want to remind people driving on the wrong side of the road it would be better to put the sign on the right side of the road where they are more likely to see it.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

hi,

good onya fella's, nice having a latte today with kickinon, china and darke peake

sweat ride DP, love the big pipe

glad you enjoying your time in Victoria, dont let the tunnel closure deter anybody from enjoying the ride man, it was straight through on power st, around the gardens and back on to the SE

thanks

robots

just make out the street bob in this shot:

Yeh, thanks China, Robots and Kickinon. Great ride, look forward to catching up again on the road somewhere.