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Sunday, after breakfast we started the two days trip back to Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road. The group doing the Great Ocean Road was reduced to 11 as others had to go back to work to keep the world spinning.
The first stop was the Ros McArthur Art Gallery, a local artist with the studio set in her property, a sheep farm in the Victoria Valley. Her paintings include still life and landscape oil paintings depicting the natural surroundings of the Grampians National Park.  The lady was very friendly and invited us to have a picnic lunch in her garden and we gladly accepted.
From there we travelled to Hamilton where we visited Hamilton Art Gallery that was supposed to have a painting of Sir Sydney Nolan one of Australia's best-known painters. Unfortunately the painting was out and we ended up in the near coffee shop having coffee and Anzac biscuits.
From Hamilton we travelled to Port Fairy on the coast stopping briefly at Byaduk lookout were we could see and extinct volcano at Mount Napier and some ancient lava flows.
The final stop for the day was Port Fairy a charming fishing village at the western end of the Great Ocean Road. We stayed in the Merrijig Inn, one of the oldest inns in Victoria. We enjoyed another wonderful dinner surrounded by a great group of friends. The wine was good and the company even better.

In the morning before breakfast we went for a stroll along the river and after breakfast we strated our drive along the famous Great Ocean Road.