Blogs from Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Today was our rest day. We farewelled Byron on the last 2 legs of his journey after breakfast. Nesan, Cheryl, Greg and Annette went to the Otway Fly which is an eco tourist project where they walked above the tree line and rode the Otway Fly (a large flying fox in the tree canopy of the rainforest). There are about 6 cloud platforms and you reach speeds of 40km/h over 60-120m. After this we enjoyed a picnic lunch followed by a walk in along the tree tops canopy platform. Nesan and Cheryl scored a ride in the buggy up the hill, while Greg and Annette enjoyed a walk and took heaps of photos. While we were doing this Pete enjoyed a liesurely day at Apollo Bay sitting in the Nautigal's Cafe, going to the local IGA ... read more

In Apollo bay I have learned about all kinds of wildlife, thanks to Uncle waz n stu. :)... read more

The Great Ocean Road was built between 1919 and 1932, it was built with the idea of constructing a road of great beauty. It was built as a memorial to the soldiers who had died in World War 1 and as an employnent scheme for those returning with the help of the unemployed during the depression. Well I was really looking forward to this part of our travels and we had allowed 2/3 days for the journey from Melbourne to Adelaide. On day one we had planned to reach Port Fairy for the nights stop, but instead only mangaged to reach Port Campbell which was not a great distance form Melbourne. I must take the responsibility for this, along with the Australian Highways Department, mine was for wanting to stop and visit every lookout point on ... read more

Left Mt Gambier early on Saturday morning and before we knew it we were in Victoria. Roads became pot-holed and windy, but that might be more as a result of the suddenly hilly landscape. Lots of pine and eucalyptus plantations, sheep and cattle in feed up to their bellies and dairies everywhere. Devondale seems to be here. Travelled through to Heywood then took the C191 inland instead of the supposedly more superior A1. There are no superior roads here! Port Fairy was a beautiful little town with bluestone buildings, huge churches. Very undulating right to the sea, with lots of heath covered paddocks (heath so we're told) and very few trees. We think it must be windy here! Warrnambool was also a real surprise for us. It is a city but with some fantastic views. Check ... read more

My turn to make breaky so bacon and omlette was the order of the day. Our travels today took us further along the great ocean road and we visited several view points along the beach such as London Bridge, The Twelve Apostles and the Arch. We also drove up the road to Ottway Lighthouse where we stopped to do wild koala spotting which the kids thoroughly enjoyed. our next stop was to view a local cheese factory and a local distillery where of course we did some tasting. After a full day on the road we returned to the house for home cooked lasagne and another bottle of red wine. After dinner we settled the kids and jumped into the car to go find Apollo Bays stonking nightlife, we didnt find it and settled fot the ... read more