Saturday and it’s a scorcher.

Woke up early to bright blue skies and a predicted high of 32 degrees. With Torquays numerous beaches less than a mile away we headed to the ‘front’.

Being Australia the beach was teeming at 9.45am, so having found a decent spot and got our coffee and toast fix, we settled in for the day.

The pictures don’t really show it, but this was the busiest we’ve seen any beaches in Oz to date. Torquay being only 90mins from Melbourne it attracts a lot of weekend visits and hence the cafes and restaurants were filled to the brim.

Torquay is the home of Rip Curl and Billabong, as well as the Australian National Surfing Museum. Added to the surfing heritage, it has imposing place names such as Point Impossible and Point Danger so no one is confused by the risks of surfing in these parts!

We enjoyed the surf, but kept to the shallows and indulged in some sun worshipping and walks along the beach.

In the evening we went down to the Esplanade and a bar called Bomboras where we drank in the views and a couple of glasses of cool South Australian Sauvignon Blanc.

To give you a steer as to where we now sit, at the start of the Great Ocean Road the Apple Map below shows the position of Torquay west of Geelong, about 75 miles from Melbourne.

Tomorrow we head down to Anglesea and from there towards Apollo Bay.