Day 17: Great Ocean Drive
We checked out of our hotel this morning around 5am and lugged out to the airport. When we tried to check in for our flight, we were sent to the customer service desk, where we were told that our flight was cancelled. Why, you may ask? Apparently, a volcano erupted in Chile a week ago, and the volcanic ash has drifted over the Atlantic Ocean, over Africa, over the Indian Ocean, and over the Pacific to create a cloud over southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Umm, ok.
After being at a loss about what to do, we decided to go back to our hotel, uncheck out, and at least sleep a few more hours before figuring out what the heck to do! The hotel was nice enough to give us our room back. We slept for a few hours, re-checked out, left our bags there, and decided to look for a car to rent to salvage what we could of the day.
We found a car (and on the way, free internet hotspots!) and decided to head out on our last sight to see around Melbourne. Since our plans were kind of thwarted, we were kind of stressed out. We tried to book some other stuff and finally decided to avoid Tasmania for now, finish up our Melbourne trip, and go to Sydney in two days, instead. We booked our flight out to Sydney, and since we were getting such a late start out of Melbourne, booked a hotel for tonight in a town at the end of Great Ocean Drive so we could start the drive backwards to Melbourne tomorrow.
The drive was mostly in the dark so we didn’t see much – our goal was just to get out to Warrnambool so we could sleep well tonight and do the drive tomorrow.
(no pics on this post - didn't do anything today!)
We checked out of our hotel this morning around 5am and lugged out to the airport. When we tried to check in for our flight, we were sent to the customer service desk, where we were told that our flight was cancelled. Why, you may ask? Apparently, a volcano erupted in Chile a week ago, and the volcanic ash has drifted over the Atlantic Ocean, over Africa, over the Indian Ocean, and over the Pacific to create a cloud over southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Umm, ok.
After being at a loss about what to do, we decided to go back to our hotel, uncheck out, and at least sleep a few more hours before figuring out what the heck to do! The hotel was nice enough to give us our room back. We slept for a few hours, re-checked out, left our bags there, and decided to look for a car to rent to salvage what we could of the day.
We found a car (and on the way, free internet hotspots!) and decided to head out on our last sight to see around Melbourne. Since our plans were kind of thwarted, we were kind of stressed out. We tried to book some other stuff and finally decided to avoid Tasmania for now, finish up our Melbourne trip, and go to Sydney in two days, instead. We booked our flight out to Sydney, and since we were getting such a late start out of Melbourne, booked a hotel for tonight in a town at the end of Great Ocean Drive so we could start the drive backwards to Melbourne tomorrow.
The drive was mostly in the dark so we didn’t see much – our goal was just to get out to Warrnambool so we could sleep well tonight and do the drive tomorrow.
(no pics on this post - didn't do anything today!)
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