ANZAC day public holiday was seen as the perfect opportunity to take an extra few days annual leave, and make a road trip out to the famous Great Ocean Road. After perusing the available accommodation in the area, we finally decided somewhere that was central to the main attractions we wanted to see, and ended up in a isolated cabin, with a great view over a valley and then over the sea. And no we didnt smuggle our cats along, the place was pet friendly!

Our first stop was the Otway Treetop Walk, which according to the brochure was the longest and highest treetop walk in the world. Well for 20 bucks each, it’s gonna have to something pretty special. In the end it was great fun, except the swaying at the top of the tower gave me an overwhelming feeling of wanting to yak, so we didn’t stay up there very long (just enough to get a quick panoramic).

Our next stop was just down the road at the famous triplet falls. We were hesitant to make the walk to the falls (about 1 hour round trip), because of the lack of rainfall in the area meaning everything was quite dry, but we thought it was worth a chance. So after negotiating ourselves down about 300 slippery moss covered steps, we arrived at the bottom of the valley to see the following:

Next onto the 12 (8?) apostles. The pile of rubble in the foreground is the latest casualty where the apostle collapsed in 2005. The day was a little smoky so all the photos were washed out in colour, although nothing photoshop can’t fix! Along the way, we checked out all the standard attractions including the Grotto, London Bridge and the Arch all of which are more of the same really.

So that’s it, another famouse Australian tourist destination checked off the list. Now we have to fullfill Holly’s childhood dream, and go skiing in the mountains