Warrnambool

It ended up being significantly cheaper to rent a car and drive to Melbourne from Adelaide. Since we wanted to rent a car and drive the Great Ocean Road anyway it was the easy decision for me. The drive to our first stop on the Great Ocean Rd end up being 6-8 hours including a 1 hr detour for a road accident. Along the road today we passed many wineries and would you believe it Hahndorf. We really could have skipped the tour yesterday and just did the wineries ourselves.

We ended up in Warrnambool, the start (or end) of the Great Ocean Rd, for the night. We found a cool hostel to stay at near the waterfront. It had an interesting social vibe that would have been full of surfers in the summer. We enjoyed a couple of Victoria Bitters in the common area.Read more