Breakfast at the Great Ocean Ecolodge consists of The World’s Largest Croissants, butter and jam. Today they also had the option of Vegemite – now, I do love a bit of Marmite back in Blighty, but not sure I would ever have it on a Croissant. Anyway, I did try a bit of Vegemite and, despite it originally being created as a Marmite substitute when supplies dried up during WWI, it just ain’t the same…

After breakfast, we hopped back in the car with the aim of driving the remaining section of the Great Ocean Road as far as the Twelve Apostles, one of the iconic sights of Australia. William slept most of the way and, apart from a “protest” moment on the way back to the car when he sat down in the middle of the path refusing to move, was a delight.

We drove back by heading inland and stopped for a lovely picnic lunch. After lunch, Wills clambered onto my shoulders and we went for a delightful walk down into a wooded, ferny valley to see the Triplet Falls. There were lots of steps down, and subsequently up, but it was well worth it!

Ever since seeing the lighthouse at Cape Leeuwin near Margaret River, every time William has laid eyes on one he has asked to go into it. So, as we were, yet again, staying near a lighthouse we decided to see if we could get up it with him. So, off we drove to the Cape Otway Lighthouse – about 15 minutes from where we are staying and the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia, dating from 1848. On the way we passed through some beautiful woodland that is a well known koala spotting area – therefore every 200m or so you have to negotiate a load of hastily parked cars and their occupants subsequently standing in the road oblivious to oncoming traffic!

Anyway, we managed to get to the lighthouse without hitting a koala or a Japanese tourist and William was delighted to hear we could go up and, after almost 100 steps to the top (carried by Daddy this time), he gave a little dance!