June 10th, 2007

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 didn’t smuggle our cats along, the place was pet friendly!

Felix & Archie

Felix & Archie

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).

Treetop Tower

Treetop Tower

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:

Triplet Falls

Triplet Falls

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.

12 Apostles

12 Apostles

So that’s it, another famous Australian tourist destination checked off the list. Now we have to full fill Holly’s childhood dream, and go skiing in the mountains :(


3 Comments

7:59 pm, June 17th 2007

Hey Ryan, did you see the glow worms? I think it was “Maits Rest” – a boardwalk through rainforest and millions of tiny shiny “glow worms” at night. A bit spooky…. Can’t remember what it was near but it was definitely along the Ocean Road.

Colleen

8:50 pm, June 17th 2007

Hi Colleen,

We didn’t get a chance to see the glow worms, they were at Maits Rest, plus another place called Melba Gully which we visited during the day. Unfortunately we chickened out of going in after dark because it was too cold :(

When we go back I’ll make sure that we check them out.

1:03 am, December 12th 2007

U FATH!!!!!

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