Sunday 13th November and today Sue is coming with Sam and me. Its an average sort of day about 20 degrees with patches of sun and at this stage a light wind. We are planning to take a look down the west coast and head to Point Lonsdale via ocean Grove. We head off at our normal lazy time of about 10.00 am.
We get a good run through and out of Melbourne and down the highway to Geelong and surprisingly the trip through Geelong is also really quick. We arrive at Ocean Grove about 11.30 and check the waves - pretty ordinary, blown out and about 2 to 3 foot. We decide to get a coffee at the cafe. We get a table in the corner and have great views of the beach and discuss the plan - we agree we'll head to Point Lonsdale and if there is no surf we'll have lunch there. After coffee and a chat it's about 12.00 and we head off.
We get to Point Lonsdale about 12.30 and if the Surf was no good at Ocean Grove it's really bad at Lonsdale. We are walking back from the beach to the car when Sue suggests we go to a cafe on the water at Barwon Heads which is five minutes on from Ocean Grove. Sue and I have been there before a few years previous and it was pretty good and so we head there. In the car Sam and I give Sue a bit of "stick" about having to go to her "special cafe" and that when it's he and I we just go with it and eat wherever.
It's about 1.00 and we are seated in the cafe with our sea views and have been served water and provided with the menus - Sue then says "there's nothing on the menu I like really". We look at each other and decide well if that's the case let's leave and we do. Sam and I try and contain our amusement at this turn of events and then we drive around the corner into Barwon Heads proper to check out the lunch options. Checking out the lunch options takes about 20-30 minutes and involves walking into or past about 5 or 6 eating options plus a surf shop and a couple of other shops that take Sue's fancy. At about 1.30 we end up in the first place we looked at and we have a great lunch. It's the bakery on the left entering Barwon from the Geelong side and the meals, drinks and coffee were all great - Sam decided on breaking up his chip lunch diet and opting for 2 sausage rolls instead and Sue and I both have BLTs.
After lunch it's time for a bit of shopping - Sue heads down to buy a jumper and Sam and I go to the surf shop. We then proceed to spend about $250 between us - Sue buys her jumper, Sam gets a new wetsuit and a hoodie and it's now about 2.30 and we still have not set foot on the beach. We decide to head back to Ocean Grove to check things out.
Ocean Grove is pretty windswept - strong onshore wind blowing waves out but there are quite a few people out. I opt to help Sam with his surfing and chuck on my wetsuit. Sam has a pretty good session, catching a couple of good waves and it's really nice in the water. I do a bit of body surfing in between providing tips and the odd push to Sam and regret I didn't bring my Board in as well, as there's the odd catchable wave. Not too worry I tell myself there's always next week.
We head out of the water about 3.30 pm and get changed - Sue gets some coffees and a hot chocolate for Sam and its about 3.50 before we head home. Its been a productive shopping day, a fun family outing but there was no surfing for me. We head home and get back about 5.30 pm. I contemplate a weekend gone and no beach added to the break count - I need to get motoring.
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