Along the Great Ocean Road

Great Ocean Road

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February 8th 2008
From our camp at Port Fairy, we spend a wonderful day driving to the Twelve Apostles. There are 8 of these wonderful lime stone monuments left standing in the Great Southern Ocean. Very impressive were also the other lime stone formations on the way, especially the London Bridge that fell in 1990, the Loch Ard Gorge and the Grotto. Port Campbell is a great ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more