London Bridge Port Campbell

Hey I want to tell you aaalll about the International Beach Program in Lorne, a small town right at the beautiful coast on the Great Ocean Road.
Be warned! This could take a while to read ;)

Monday 20th:
Today me and my Canadian friend Kris went to take the Bus from Warrnambool train station to Lorne. The bus cost 18AUD and went …

Day two of the Great Ocean Road Chillax Tour begins early.


We are squeezing ourselves into wetsuits for a surfing lesson beginning at 7.30am at Apollo Bay beach. It's an amazing beach, morning and fun filled two hours fighting with the waves. I find the experience something to behold - I mange to stand (just!) but give up …

On our first full day of Ocean Road we had a lovely breakfast in a nice bakery in Apollo Bay and then drove in convoy down to the Cape Otway Lighthouse which was built in 1848 and is considered Australia's "most significant lighthouse"... I can't help but feel 'significant' is a vague enough pre-fix to not be argued with... I didn't necessarily …

... plenty of opportunities to stop and admire the wonders of coastal erosion in the form of named features such as the 12 Apostles, London Bridge, Blow Holes, caves and steep cliffs. The photos in this section speak for themselves, so I'll save you the ...

... start. We were accompanied by glorious blue skys and soon arrived in Torquay which is the spritual home of surfing in Australia, the Australian headquarters of all the big surf brands like Rip Curl, Quicksilver etc and just a short drive from Bells ...

... didnt lose any interest in seeing these native animals in the wild. We then headed down The Road to our next destination, Port Campbell. Before reaching here we stopped to see the Lighthouse at Cape Otway where 'Round The Twist' was filmed, if ...

... The other end of the tunnel was called the blowhole and water whirled around as it came through the tunnel. We also visited London bridge (which had fallen down!) and Bay of Islands which were again limestone formations. We then took the inland route ...

... the Great Ocean Road. Limestone formations abounded along the ocean side, and a few had good stories behind them. One, called the London Bridge because of it's likeness to said structure, had the part that connected it to the mainland collapse in 1990 ...

... get some good shots. You can really see how the wind and the sea has shaped the coast line, creating islets and caves. London Bridge   was next although it's not a bridge anymore; what was connected to the mainland collapsed in 1990- with two ...

... Bridge formation was attached to the mainland with a second arch.  Then, suddenly, it cracked and fell.  That's right: "London Bridge is falling down."  Luckily, nobody was hurt.  A school group had just walked off the bridge and a ...

... to gaze out upon, it would take days to tell you about them all! We did all the major well known sites such as London Bridge, The Twelve Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge and I must admit these were very impressive in a beautiful/imposing sort of way. ...

... " which used to be named the sow and her piglets but was changed because it was not a classy name...There was also the London Bridge, which used to be a land bridge but then collapsed a couple years ago, leaving a few tourists stuck on a towering new ...

... up camp and sorting out the campervan which we have brought off Lee and Amy (The campervan is called Betty). Our stay in Port Campbell was quite a relaxed one. We spent most of our week here chilling out on the beach, reading our books and swimming. ...