Tuesday 18th january and I'm heading home to Melbourne after 8 days in Apollo Bay, 5 of which involved substantial amounts of rain. I head home down the Great Ocean Road and decide to stop at Wye River for two reasons - one for a surf and two to check out the new cafe. The surf is ok - waves up to 1 meter but the wind is blowing off-shore holding up the waves.
Wye river beach is right opposite a big caravan park, has a great pub with the best outdoor area in Victoria, if not Australia and has a great, hilly bushland background to the beach. The wave is reasonably consistent from what I have seen and you can get both a left hand and right hand breaks happening over sand. Today there is some action on the left hand side of the beach when facing the water. I head out there and join two young blokes already out there. I am out there about 2 minutes when I paddle onto a slow right hander and am off down the face, bottom out, turn up and go right and then over and out the back of the wave. A nice ride and I think here we go this could be a good day. Suffice to say over the next 15 minutes I catch nothing with the off-shore playing havoc with the waves - they form up and then just seem to dissapear before reforming and crashing closer to the beach.
I stay out about 40 minutes and in the end I get about three waves but the setting is great and I've had the exercise I need for the day. It's another break down and I did enjoy juts sitting and admiring the coast - all the breaks along the Great Ocean Road are spectacular and if you've never been down this way you've just got to go.
Once out of the water I check out the cafe, which is a post office, newsagent, general store and cafe in actual fact. I just order a coffee and it's very good but looking around at what else is on offer, I would recommend slotting the cafe in for a nice relaxing breakfast or lunch after a surf. 15 down and bring on 20.
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