The Really Great Ocean Road

We left Melbourne on Saturday 25th Jan with a bit of a hangover and, after picking up a pretty cool 4x4 Jeep, started our Great Ocean Road adventure.  In fact, we'd planned to drive from Melbourne to Adelaide, some 1100 kms in 3 days.  The first 2 days we would probably cover 450kms in total, with the rest on the final 3rd day.  I wasn't looking forward to day 3.

The Great Ocean Road is exactly that.  It's a great road that pretty much follows the ocean.  It winds, lifts and dips, is scattered with tiny coastal towns and has some of the most amazing natural landscapes you will ever see.  It seemed that every few kms there was another scenic lookout, waterfall or photo spot to stop at.  There were also some huge and rather expensive houses along the way.

A few of my favorites places were....

1 - Gibsons Steps.  These, surprisngly, are steps that lead you down to the beach where you can look up and see the towering cliffs about you.  

As well as getting a look from ground level at 2 of the 12 Apostles, 

2 - The 12 Apostles, which are huge rock formations out at sea.  Due to the power of the sea eroding them, there are only 9 now, but still spectacular.

3 - Grotto Bay.  This is where the sea has carved a massive hole in the rock.  Really stunning.

The final thing was just how clear the sea was here. 

There are many, many more I could mention.

The towns we stayed in were Apollo Bay and Port Fairy.  Very small, quiet and not much to report.  

Finally, during our long 3rd day drive, we stopped 1/2 way at a placed called Blue Lake, a lake formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago.  We read that this was one of the bluest lakes you will see.

Overall one of my favourite 3 days of the trip so far.

Love 

Stuoobs

xxx