Day 18: Great Ocean Road
We’re both not feeling too well, so we decided to take it easy this morning and leave at a leisurely pace. Great Ocean Road is a 300km drive along the coast near Melbourne, with spectacular views and sights to see along the way. The “mountains” are actually limestone and sandstone stack formations that have eroded over millions of years, sometimes leaving pieces of these formations in the middle of the ocean like lone pillars.
We started the drive in Warrnambool itself, with a visit to the ocean and the soft, soft sands on the beach, where the whales come to calve during the winter, and which is also one of the many surfer spots along the coast. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see any whales (but we did see surfers) and we couldn’t stay too long, since we had a lot of driving to do today.
We moved on and stopped at beautiful lookouts along the drive, seeing gorgeous beaches and formations in the waters all along the coast. We were so happy to be back in nature!
When we stopped at an information centre part of the way in to find out what there was to see, we were told we would need days to see everything (which we didn’t have)! So we rushed out of there, and decided to see as much as we could and get as far as we could on the drive before sundown. We rushed to some spectacular sights, and spent some time by the ocean at sundown before deciding to call it a day. In about 10 hours spent driving today, we only covered about 170km of the 300km drive (not including the extra 150km it will take to get to Melbourne)! There were just so many things we wanted to enjoy!
Finally, we drove through rainforests out to a small town and decided to break there for the night. We roamed various hotels and motels for rates and chose one with a view of the ocean (which we didn’t see because it was night)! We had dinner and just relaxed. More driving tomorrow!
We’re both not feeling too well, so we decided to take it easy this morning and leave at a leisurely pace. Great Ocean Road is a 300km drive along the coast near Melbourne, with spectacular views and sights to see along the way. The “mountains” are actually limestone and sandstone stack formations that have eroded over millions of years, sometimes leaving pieces of these formations in the middle of the ocean like lone pillars.
We started the drive in Warrnambool itself, with a visit to the ocean and the soft, soft sands on the beach, where the whales come to calve during the winter, and which is also one of the many surfer spots along the coast. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see any whales (but we did see surfers) and we couldn’t stay too long, since we had a lot of driving to do today.
We moved on and stopped at beautiful lookouts along the drive, seeing gorgeous beaches and formations in the waters all along the coast. We were so happy to be back in nature!
When we stopped at an information centre part of the way in to find out what there was to see, we were told we would need days to see everything (which we didn’t have)! So we rushed out of there, and decided to see as much as we could and get as far as we could on the drive before sundown. We rushed to some spectacular sights, and spent some time by the ocean at sundown before deciding to call it a day. In about 10 hours spent driving today, we only covered about 170km of the 300km drive (not including the extra 150km it will take to get to Melbourne)! There were just so many things we wanted to enjoy!
Finally, we drove through rainforests out to a small town and decided to break there for the night. We roamed various hotels and motels for rates and chose one with a view of the ocean (which we didn’t see because it was night)! We had dinner and just relaxed. More driving tomorrow!
Our little rock stack (we're building them everywhere!)
A cove, a sandstone formation, and the ocean
A formation aptly named London Bridge
(it fell down about 20 yrs ago, stranding two people on the remaining island
- they were saved a few hours later)
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