Great Ocean Road

Location: Melbourne
Weather: Wow there's a bit of sun now

After staying a night in the All Nations Backpackers - not a bad place - except for the dim light in the room, we rented a car for 2 days and embarked on a drive down the famous Great Ocean Road.
Got to Geelong first and stopped to buy some food. Most co-incidentally we noticed there was a sign in the mall that some true superstars - the Aussie equivalent to Boyzone - Human Nature - were appearing there. So we hanged around and got their autograph! My signed copy of Lonely Planet Australia is now priceless! and so what if we were the only adult males in the queue!

Moving on from Geelong we stayed the night in a caravan park and had some very good fish n'chips in Torquay - a surf capital apparently. The waves at night and in the morning, along with the surfers did look pretty amazing.

Next day we continued our road trip. All the way Past Anglesea to Lorne, where we stopped for lunch then on to Apollo Bay. As well as taking in the quite incredible surf and coastline, we also visited a couple of lighthouses - Airseys Inlet and Cape Otway.

Leaving the coastline we then travelled through the winding, hilly roads and very pleasant English and New Zealand style countryside to eventually get to the Gibson Steps.
And finally our main destination - the Twelve Apostles - several rock towers sitting the sea! we got there just as the sun was going down so it was a pretty good view.

As it was dark by now we just headed to Port Campbell, then back along the A1 and then the M1 back to Melbourne. OK, so I did about 12 hours driving that day, but it didn't seem like it!

By JamesReed on 05.06.04 @ 06:13 AM GMT