Trekking down the coast with Isobelle...

Yesterday I travelled the 2.5 hours down the coast to stay with my girlfriend Isobelle. She has a great house; the position is to die for. It's on the Great Ocean Road and I'm sitting here at her desk, looking out over the ocean. The sea makes enough noise to wake the dead I expect, yet strangely, every time I'm down here, I sleep like a baby.

Still, for such a beautiful paradise, there are cars and trucks whizzing by at speed; but it is tucked into a nook along the road about halfway between Lorne and Apollo Bay.

So, I travelled down here yesterday and spent a couple of hours before we got back in the car and went off for a pizza night which was about an hour away. The pizza night... I didn't know a soul yet felt surprisingly comfortable. Everyone there was very welcoming, so I felt like I had known them about 5 minutes in.

The deck where we sat was surrounded by a huge pond that had all manner of fish in it, I was sitting with my back to it, so I was wary every time I got up. I had 3 gins and I thought if I'd have had another, I'd have ended up in there.

I was assured that it was only about 2 feet deep but that didn't mean I wanted to be in with fish... Some of whom seemed quite large. Not Jaws large but big enough to take a toe off!

I'm going to stay here until about Wednesday. 

  

It really is beautiful down here...