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A very quiet sleepy town on a winter's night
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Sleepy fishing village, beautiful scenery, cosy accomodation
Waxbag Says: This section of the Great Ocean Road is the most photographed and visited. Here the unrelenting sea has battered the ancient limestone coast leaving a spectacular series of rock stacks, known as the Twelve Apostles. Currently, however, there are only six Apostles which is a...
Loch Ard Gorge, where history meets the sea
Waxbag Says: Included as a part of the Twelve Apostles Marine Park and the Port Cambell National Park, this extraordinary gorge is named after the unfortunate three-masted square-rigged iron-hulled clipper Loch Ard which foundered off Mutton Bird Island in 1978. Captain Gibb was trying...
Waxbag Says: This is the beginning section of the Great Ocean Road from the west. This spectacular bay is dotted with island rock stacks that are constantly battered by huge waves even on calm days. There are four viewing platforms and 1.8kms of walking trails. Notice the water filled...
Waxbag Says: This is a classic example of the erosional forces of sink holes. The Grotto was created when multiple pools wore away and dissolved the limestone below it until they met creating a natural arch. Easy access from the Great Ocean Road by paved areas and stairways.See video at...
xuessium Says: TORQUAY22km from Geelong (GL), both tours drove passed this seaside town without a stop. The beach here is popular with families. It is also a Fishermans Beach where you will find boating, sailing & windsurfing. Lifesavers patrol available during summer. BELLS BEACHThe 1st...
The GOR: Muttonbird Island & Lord Ard Gorge
xuessium Says: The Shipwreck Coast takes its name for the many ships wrecked on this treacherous stretch. Lord Ard Gorge is perhaps most famous for a shipwreck story which happened at this spot almost 120 yrs ago. (I even has the fortune of sitting through an Australian movie made on the...
Zanzibargirl Says: Natures way of carving a pretty picture out of the coastline by the sea, the limestone stacks of the Twelve Apostles, also known as "The Sow and piglets" would have to be one of the most photographed sites in Australia, Victoria and the most popular picture of the Great...
Zanzibargirl Says: Being such a windswept rocky outcropped coastline, the oceans off the great ocean road have never been a safe place to sail. Many shipwrecks having occurred along this coastline, part of which is even known as "The Ship Wreck Coast". The most famous of these ship wrecks...
Zanzibargirl Says: The Arch formation shows just how the pinacles that are the the 12 Apostles were formed. As holes driven into the rock face from water of the coastline develop into caves; the caves form into arches. Eventually as the arch collapses, islands of rock are stranded in the sea...
Port Campbell National Park - Loch Ard Gorge
ATXtraveler Says: As you venture east on the Great Ocean Road out of Port Campbell on your way to Warrnambool, you will come across the Twelve Apostles, and then move on to Loch Ard Gorge. Loch Ard is named after the ship that made a 3 month journey from England to the Southern Coast of...
Port Campbell National Park - Bay of Islands
ATXtraveler Says: As you continue on your journey from Port Campbell to Warrnambool, past Loch Ard Gorge, you come up on the next portion of the Port Campbell National Park, the Bay of Islands. At both of the previous portions of the park, you experience the view of the landscape from a...
Keep going to the Bay of Islands
Gypsygirl05 Says: Bay of Islands is one of the many places in Australia that does not get the credit that it's due. I was impressed with the 12 Apostles, of course, but the Bay of Islands blew me away. I had never heard about them before I found a map in a tourism bureau, but I am so glad I...
Kathrin_E Says: London Bridge used to be a peninsula with two open arches. One day in 1985, all of a sudden one of the arches collapsed. Two tourists, scared to death, were left standing on the outer part which had become an island. They had to be rescued by a helicopter. Luckily no one had...
Bird Life on Port Campbell Beach
Kathrin_E Says: The little protected beach at the end of the gorge is popular among birds. They allow humans to come rather close, thus an easy option to catch some photos.The penguin was all alone on the beach in the afternoon. This was the only wild penguin I saw during the whole trip. We...
1 Review and 40 Opinions After travelling all day from Mt Gambier, we decided to stay the first night at Port Campbell. This...
Bombara's: Great location - bad,bad food
leffe3 Says: Looking over the beach and the bay, floor to ceiling windows, decking at front and to the side, this place looked the ideal place to grab lunch. Didn't expect anything too fancy and wanted to keep it simple. Not in a rush but not looking for a long Sunday lunch.Steak...
Getting to the Great Ocean Road
xuessium Says: SELF-DRIVEThe B100 is the Great Ocean Road.It is a 2-hour drive from the heart of Melbourne to the start of the Great Ocean Road at Torquay.Travel via the Princes Highway over the West Gate Bridge to the bayside city of Geelong. From here you can take the Surf Coast Highway...
The 3 hard-to-reachs at the Lord Ard Gorge stop
xuessium Says: Tours don't make long stops so while everyone rushes around to soak up the magic of Lord Ard Gorge, the tight time meant abandoning some of the other attractions around the spot.I was fortunate to be given the chance to visit some of these spots: The Blowhole, Thunder Cave...
xuessium Says: I am not sure if any tours from the city will end up here - I reckon the chance to be low considering we only saw private cars in the carpark!The Otway Fly is a 600 m long 25 m high elevated tree top walk ascending at a gentle grade through a magnificent stand of cool...
Take Your Time on the Great Ocean Road
Kathrin_E Says: The Great Ocean Road can be 'done' as a day trip from Melbourne to see the Twelve Apostles. However, it would be a shame to race through in one day and back and miss most of it.The spectacular coastline west of Cape Otway cannot be enjoyed from the car. The road is too far...
Alphons Says: The Great Ocean Road is build as a mi=onument for the soldiers who have served in the first worldwar. The start was in 1910 and it was finished in 1934, many of the 3000 men who has worked on the road has been veterans of the worldwar1.
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Looking over the beach and the bay, floor to ceiling windows, decking at front and to the side, this place looked the ideal place to grab lunch. Didn't expect...
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A Stop Along the Great Ocean Road
Having a sister living 15 minutes from Port Campbell it's an area I have visited many times over the last 30 years. I have seen it when it had one little shop and a few houses scattered around the...
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Port Campbell - Gateway to GOR and the South Coast
Port Campbell was the midway point of our tour through the Great Ocean Road. Having started the journey at 6:30am from Melbourne, we were cruising right through the day when we arrived in Port...
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Port Campbell and the 12 Apostles
Port Campbell is a small coastal village, dramatically located in an almost perfectly U-shaped bay. But this is no gentle, sandy-beached inlet. This is the Victorian coastline of the Great Ocean Rd....
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Once upon the Great Ocean Road
Its proximity to the famed 12 Apostles, an Australian iconic landscape, has kept Port Campbell not only alive, but flourishing in its own inimitable fashion. Personally speaking, I like to think I've...
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