Blogs from Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 4

So early start again for a trip along the great ocean road. We had picked a trip with a company called escape discovery adventures as they had also promised some koala and kangaroo spotting which we still hadn't seen (and we were pretty determined not to cheat by going to a zoo!) Paul, the tour guide and owner picked us up ay 7.15, the first of a group of 11 so not many other pickups I'm glad to say. We got to pick the best seats on the bus too! One of the problems with a day trip along the great ocean road is that it starts miles from Melbourne! In fact it probably took over 3 and a half hours to get to the start. Luckily Paul was full of interesting facts about Melbourne and ... read more

Auf so einer langen, langen Reise ist ja das Schuhwerk ganz entscheidend, nicht nur bezüglich Qualität, sondern auch was Anzahl und Gewicht, aber natürlich auch Vollständigkeit und Angemessenheit betrifft. Zumal man ja weiss, daß die Australier ausschliesslich Krokodillederstiefel und Ug-Boots tragen, die Neuseeländer hingegen nur Fußbehaarung. Lange Vorrede, kurze Darstellung von Frank´s Schuhsituation: Aufgrund der jahrelangen Vernachlässigung meines Portfolios freizeittauglicher Schuhe (ich hatte nur noch passendes zu jeder Art von Business-Outfit), musste ich kurz vor der Reise diese Portfoliolücken schliessen. Habe also gemäß eingangs genannter Kriterien zielgerichtet den Markt analysiert und dann - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung allfälliger Mehrzweckverwendungsmöglichkeiten - folgende Fußbehaarungshüllen erstanden (jeweils ein Paar, in eckigen Klammern jeweils der Grund für die ... read more

Sunday was a great day for us - we took a small tour bus to the Great Ocean Road for the day. We thought about doing the full day event on our own, but still slightly afraid of driving on the opposite side of the roads here. We started out at Bells Beach were there are world reknown waves and a huge surfing competition is held here too. After the beach we made our way along the coast to go find some Koala's. They just live in the trees here - eating the gum tree leaves when they wake up in between sleeping 20hrs a day! After this, we stopped for a mid-morning snack of tea/coffee and butter cake (aka pound cake). On our way to this stop we saw a couple of kangaroos just hanging ... read more

We got together with a couple of friends and decided to head away for the Australia long weekend holiday. Daniel and Dorana came to pick us up in St. Kilda on the Friday afternoon then drove down the beautiful Great Ocean Road to our small motel in Apollo Bay. I had done the drive quite a few times down the Great Ocean Road and each time it blew me away, one of the most beautiful drives in the world. We settled into our rooms, bought some drinks and had a few games before turning in for the night. The next we decided to head out to the Great Otway National Park and have a look at the Otway Fly Treetop walk. The drive took around an hour and when we arrived unfortunately the Zip Line tour ... read more

The coast heading south from Melbourne is one of the most popular scenic drives in Australia and the Great Ocean Road certainly doesn’t disappoint. We only went as far as the Twelve Apostles but over a weekend that is still a decent trip and with all the things to see along the way it was plenty far enough. What we really enjoyed was getting back to nature and after a few years out of Australia to be able to see the natives is always a treat, even the more deadly sort. As winter is now pretty much finishing the snakes are starting to wake up and head out for a feed and the tiger snake we came across really did have a bad attitude. It is this time of year that the snakes are a little ... read more