Friday, 18 January 2013

The Grampians and The Great Ocean Road


 We crossed the border into the fifth Australian state of our road trip – Victoria, ‘The place to be’ according to their car number plates.




Our first stop took us to ‘The Grampians’, a giant mountain range made up of sandstone ridges. We drove to some high look-out points and saw some great views.






In the heat, we undertook a short trek to a beautiful waterfall called ‘Mackenzie Falls’. We stopped to relax for a short while, but quickly made our way back as the humidity was creating giant rain clouds above us that were ready to explode any minute.




From ‘The Grampians’ we headed towards the start of the ‘Great Ocean Road’. The road is a beautiful 243 kilometre drive along the south-eastern coast of Australia. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t hold out for us, but that wasn’t going to stop us!




The drive had lots of look-out points to view the stacks and arches that stood along the rugged coast line, it was a geographers dream.








The Twelve Apostles created a particularly lovely view.






We continued driving and the lush greenery prevailed as we drove through the Great Otway National Park. We stopped overnight in Apollo Bay for a well-deserved rest.

In the morning we continued our drive along the Great Ocean Road and stopped off at ‘Lorne’ renowned for surfing, so we grabbed a drink, took a seat in the sun and enjoyed the view, haha!



We even managed to catch a photo of a wild koala in a tree afterwards.




We then got to visit the lighthouse that appeared in the TV series ‘Round the Twist’!!
“Have you ever, ever felt this… strange things happen, when you’re going round the twist!”




We got an obligatory photo next to the ‘Great Ocean Road’ road sign and then it was onto Melbourne for a week for the run up to Christmas in the sunshine!




Peace and Love,
Lyds & Bex
xxxxx

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