Sunday, 25 January 2009

The Great Ocean Road - West of Cape Otway

Yesterday we drove from Nelson through Portland, Port Fairy and Warnambool to the Great Ocean Road. Surprisingly I've not been past Apollo Bay from the Melbourne Side (though have been to Warnambool and Port Fairy), so this was a drive I was quite looking forward to. We stopped at all the typical locations such as Bay of Islands:

... then after lunch at Peterborough we continued to London Bridge (now named London Arch after the collapse in the 1990's):

... we skipped The Grotto but visited The Arch:

... and the Thunder Cave, Blow Hole and Loch Ard Gorge:


We didn't stop in Port Campbell (though we did drive through to have a gander), continuing on to the Twelve Apostles (now 8 since #9 collapsed in 2005) and Gibson's Steps:


It was a great afternoon of sight seeing, as I'm sure the few 1000 others we encountered at the Apostles would agree! We are now stopping for a few days at the quiet hamlet of Princetown, just a few kilometers up the road. Probably just one more stop before home...

3 comments:

shauno said...

happy australia day

Anonymous said...

The photos are just beautiful!

I'm so enjoying living your holiday through the blog I don't want it to end- I'm sure you guys don't either!

Tinker-Bal said...

I has a paul and libby!!!!!!one!!!!!