After a good night’s rest we all had breakfast and were contemplating on what we were going to do today. James noticed that there was a music festival in Apollo Bay, the local town near to where we were staying so we thought it would be a good idea to check it out considering how much Wills likes his music.

Apollo Bay is a sweet small town on The Great Ocean Road and every autumn they have a music festival which just happened to be on this weekend. The festival was quite small but from what we saw of it, it had some great bands. There were a few fun things for the kids to do and Wills seemed more interested in the bouncy castle and ice cream stands than the music! James even managed to persuade him to have his face painted like a tiger. Bless him, he was so good at having his face painted he didn’t move a muscle, but sadly about two minutes after having it done he decided that he didn’t like his tiger nose and asked Daddy to wipe it off.

We must have spent a good couple of hours just mooching around the festival and Apollo Bay itself – Wills had to have his now obligatory test drive of the local playground and, of course, we all had to have a walk along the beach too.

We left Apollo Bay and headed back to the Eco Lodge for a guided walk with one of the conservationists to see the resident rehabilitated Koalas and Tiger Quolls. The Tiger Quoll or spotted-tail quoll is a carnivorous marsupial with a jaw bite almost as strong as the Tasmanian devil. It is no way near as well known but just as endangered. We managed to get halfway around our tour when Wills attention span disappeared and he went bonkers! Some of it must have sunk in, though, as he has a new addition to his crew of stuffed friends in the form of Dottie, the Tiger Quoll!