Geelong bollards

RTW Day 49 - Great Ocean Road

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April 5th 2018
We check out of our B&B. It has a formidable collection of instruction stickers and it’s a relief to be out of there. Today we head for the Great Ocean Road. But we start with a detour to Geelong. Along the waterfront are 100 wooden bollards, painted by artist Jan Mitchell to resemble people and tell the story of Geelong. We take a tour of most of these rather quirky bollard figures. There ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road

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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