Blogs from Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 5

The day had arrived where we had to be up before the sun rose and birds sang as today we are heading to the cold coast of Victoria to travel along the Great Ocean Road. When we began planning this trip back in Lancaster neither of us knew anything about Australia but within a five minute google search we saw that this strip of the coast is one of THE icons of Australia after the Sydney opera house and harbour bridge and Ayres Rock. This meant we had to do it being so close! We would have loved to hire a car and drive it ourselves but prices were on the too expensive side and as it is a very long road, a tour had been booked instead. We were collected from Flinders street as the ... read more

Le site est si calme qu'on se réveille aux bruits des oiseaux vers 8h, on prend le temps d'émerger tranquillement. On décide d'aller sur la Grey River Road réputée pour ses koalas. Vu qu'on se trouve déjà dans la forêt, on va y aller entièrement par les pistes forestières. Nico prend le volant mais il est plutôt concentré à essayerde voir des animaux, du coup je décide de conduire on ira plus vite. Ca tourne beaucoup, on voit plein de black wallabies, toujours seuls et ils s'enfuient dès qu'ils nous voient, ce qui fruste Nico car ce n'est pas cette fois qu'on aura des photos! Enfin arrivés au "carrefour" pour prendre la Grey River Road, un panneau barre la route!! Ah pas de chance :-( Je fais une marche arrière malheureuse dans la boue et impossible ... read more

We started our Great Ocean Road Journey at Warrnombool. It was a great town. We loved it. We went to the wharf and we saw a big Mako shark. The man told us where he caught it. Dad touched its teeth (YUCK!). WE went on heaps of bike rides. They had heaps of parks everywhere. There was a really massive flying fox but this kid said I was too short for it. Anyway I didn’t really want to go on it cause it was way too high. WE met some nice people staying next to us. We saw them at the next place too. When we got to Lorne they saw our caravan and put to Easter bunnies on our table for James and Me to eat. That was so nice. We saw the 12 apostles ... read more

This morning we woke up surrounded by a herd of Kangaroos. There was about 20 or 30 of them in all sizes all the way around the van, feeding off the grass after the rain had cleared. Jo tested just how tame they were as she wound back the sunroof and poked her head out to take some photos. They weren’t too scared as they all stayed around! After 10mins or so a man and his dog walked across the nearby field which scared off a few of the Kangaroos and the rest soon disappeared when Jo climbed out of the van to walk over to the amenities block. Today we drove back towards Geelong which is the first large city out of Melbourne when you head along the Great Ocean Road. But instead of taking ... read more

After a rather splendid night's sleep (ie no roomies to annoy the living daylights out of me), I was up and ready to hit the road in the Vauxhall. Today I'm driving the full length of the Great Ocean Road, from just outside Port Fairy through to Torquay, south of Melbourne, and then onto the airport for a night's camping prior to my flight to New Zealand in the morning. It's a shorter drive today, but from memory, the road is that stunning that it was one of the highlights of the trip in 2008, so I'm very much looking forward to it. I took a quick gander at Port Fairy, but didn't hang around long. It's a very quaint, oldy worldy kind of town, with many an historic building and all set against the backdrop ... read more