The Great Ocean Road, Part One

Suddenly the tourist pace has been upped! We were delivered from backpacker hell in Melbourne on Monday morning by Danny and Kerry, two good friends who we first met while travelling in Africa. They live in Adelaide, and we have now started a a road trip with them, down the Great Ocean Road from Victoria to South Australia.
Rach and I were inserted like so much baggage into the back of their wagon and sat like contented schoolchildren while we were whisked out of the city and onto the road, in the hands of eager and responsible people with their own car AND EVERYTHING!
First on the itinerary was Torquay and the famous Bells Beach, where there were plenty of rad dudes catching tubes but sadly no sign of the fifty-foot swell or any ex-presidents ("Point Break", for the uninitiated...).
After catching too much sun and getting wet, we followed the coast west. In Africa, Rach and I had always been cowed by this pair's uncanny ability to spot stuff; on our Carlsberg-sponsored tour, we were immediately reminded of it when they spotted an echidna and a koala by the side of the road! Other marsupial, mythical and generally poisonous stuff, the like of which shouldn't exist, followed with suspicious regularity, as if they'd set them up along the road the day before...
So now we're set up in our home from home in Apollo Bay, with a huge tent and barbie for all your survival needs. The site is next to the sea, with opportunities for surf and early morning runs (for some) though the water is antarctic-cold. Kerry has been planning this trip for about 6 months, and has put together an information pack would impress Alan Sugar, so you can imagine the pace we've set on our sightseeing. Our first full day was spent crunching round the local parks, to lakes, tree-top walkways and a waterfall within the Great Otway reserve. Unreasonably, our hopes are up for a platypus, but even with these two we've had no luck so far...
By the way, check out the photo of the elegant Miss Bochenski after she tried walking along a fallen tree.