Pt 2 - Day 45 - Bellarine

It is supposed to be 27C today with a chance of showers.  Well, we wake up to overcast drizzling weather and decide it is not going to be a boogie boarding day today and think a look around the peninsula is in order.  We do a loop up to Drysdale and surrounding towns.  Lots of little wineries and cattle farms, but too early for wine tasting before lunch. All the little places along this side of the peninsula have a hazy view of Melbourne across the bay through the drizzle.  I imagine it would be a beautiful view on a clear day.  We then head down to Queenscliff where you can catch the ferry across to the Mornington Peninsula.  We had thought about doing this just for a look, but for $200 we decided there was still enough for us to see on this side of the bay!!!!

The "chance of showers" becomes heavy drizzle for the whole day and I doubt the temperature reaches 21C, by lunch time we are in and out of the car pretty quick to have a look at things as we are all freezing as we didn't dress for the weather today.  By 1pm we decide it is time to eat.  We head back to a lovely little winery called Jack Rabbit.  On a sunny day you would sit out on the deck over looking the water to Melbourne. The bay is home to a number of mussel farms and we watch the trawlers checking on the nets.  It continues to drizzle outside but we are all very impressed with a lovely meal, something a bit different to our average cafe or bistro meal.  There are no kids meals on this menu, but we find something that they will like and thoroughly enjoy our dishes, and a nice glass of "Jack Rabbit" to go with it.  We decide this is Glen's belated birthday meal!!!

After this we call into a couple of other little places on the way home.  Firstly an Olive Farm where the children are very taken with a little dog, a Pug x Labrador.  We have a chat to the lady there and make an olive oil purchase.  Then we call into another little winery/B and B/art gallery.  The house you see below is actually the cellar door and we all thought it was just awesome.  The rest of the "art" work around the property was the same, most unusal.  We could have looked around this property all day!!!
 

On the way home we have a quick look down the main drag of Barwen Heads, some nice little shops but lots of places closed on a Monday.  Then back to our van a simple dinner and to start packing to move on tomorrow.  The rain eases a little until about 10pm when it buckets down again!!!  We are so looking forward to packing up the wet annexe in the morning......not......Tori enjoys her last night of solitude in her annexe bedroom tonight for a while!!!!