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The Great Ocean Road
Cruising Australia's Southern Coastline
I love Aussie meat pies. Like Vegemite, they're a staple in the Australian diet. But I also discovered recently from Food Standards Australia New Zealand that the ubiquitous pie may contain any of the following: beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit, sheep and/or kangaroo, including snouts, ears, tongue roots, tendons and blood vessels!
As I sit onboard the spacious catamaran Sorrento motoring across Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, with the Aprilia Futura safely stowed on the car deck, I'm blissfully unaware of the latent menagerie inside my lunch. So, following local custom, I spear my pie's crust with the spout of a plastic ketchup bottle and squeeze...
Toorak to Torquay
I'm fighting my way out of Melbourne in heavy traffic on the Nepean Highway surrounded by "Toorak tractors," as Victorians sarcastically refer to up-market SUVs. I've soon left the tony suburbs (including Toorak) behind though, speeding across open, rolling countryside on the Aprilia Futura. This is the Mornington Peninsula, a huge hook of land that almost seals Victoria's Port Phillip Bay from the open ocean. I've collected the Futura from A1 Motorcycles in Brighton, another Melbourne suburb, and I'm heading for the ferry landing at Sorrento. Here, I can cross the Bay's entrance to Queenscliff and the start of the Great Ocean Road....
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