Day Trip - Erskine Falls

Not a trip as such but as winter approaches we have decided to try and get out more on day/weekend trips rather than our normal weeks long trips.

Today we packed up the Colorado and headed on down to Lorne and the Erskine Falls. We picked a great day for it with the sun shining most of the day and the weather being mostly warm.

 

We headed out from Melbourne to Lorne first, via the start of the Great Ocean Road, stopping on the beach. As soon as we approached the water line, looking for shells, we started noticing common sea glass, ie beer bottles :). I mentioned to the kids to start looking for Blue sea glass to see how they might go and after some searching they found some. We also found clear, green and some ceramics. We didn't collect much in the way of quantity but we all had fun looking.

After this we made our way into Lorne and onto the road heading up into the Otways to Erskine Falls. A quick stop at the Blanket Leaf picnic area showed us where we would be returning for lunch, but first the falls.

 

I selected this destination as it was identified as being close to the carpark. I really did not waht to be walking through the hills for an hour looking for the waterfall. The falls in this case were, with the upper falls lookout being only meters from the carpark. The lower falls viewing platform, however, was quite a descent down many stairs. The stairs were well maintained and there were rails all the way to the bottom. The lookout, and the falls were magnificent and we spent quite a bit of time down here taking photos and looking around. I think we were also delaying the ascent back up the stairs :)

 

 

 

The climb back up only served to highlight how unfit we all are :(

 

After the falls we returned to the picnic grounds where we had a BBQ lunch, with Bianca manning the tongs. The park was nice and quiet, and i could see it being very popular in the summer.

 

After the falls and lunch, we returned to Lorne, where we took a walk down the main street and the foreshore, which was packed with people having the same idea, making the most of a great day.

 

Overall the kids loved the day out and we will be planning many more daytrips in the near future.