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Travel Blogs from Great Ocean Road, Australia
Come Rain and Shine
This is a top pick! Our trip on the Great Ocean Road really was a game of two halves. The first half coming from Adelaide is the section with some of the more well-known sights like the 12 apostles, London bridge and Loch Ard Gorge. Things you just have to see. And see we ...
Land of Kangaroos, Koalas and Kolorful Birds
This is a top pick! ... months, I decided to hit the open road and test my driving skills on the left side of the street here in Australia. Considering I haven't driven at all since September, I've been doing quite well. Despite alarming road signs warning of 6ft tall ...
Rock Formation Glancing
This is a top pick! ... this 100km wide channel into Melbourne ending up on the seabed. Just along the road was arguably what makes the Great Ocean Road, the Twelve Apostles. A whole bunch of rock stacks protruding from the sea, a stone's throw from the mainland, formed over ...
The Great Ocean Road - Day 238
This is a top pick! ... and blustery day as I drove to Warrnambool where the main highway joins the world famous tight, windy and gloriously picturesque Great Ocean Road. Stopped at the Bay of Islands first to gaze at the majestic rock formations sitting just off the coastline, ...
Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... although the aussies don't seem to have heard of clotted cream which is very disappointing! The scenery along the Great Ocean Road is absolutely breathtaking and we also spotted more dolphins when we stopped to change drivers. Also spotted some ...
Sightseeing on the Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... in the morning but we saw bits of clearings in the clouds for sun so we went on our way to see the cliffs off the ocean road. First up we stopped at all the cliff lookouts which included the Grotto, London Bridge, Loch Ard Gorge and Thunder Cave, and The ...
Back to London Bridge
This is a top pick! ... slang for Yank). Finally there was J'ai L'eau, a French girl with a grande derriere a la Jennifer Lopez. The Great Ocean Road southwest of Melbourne twists and turns along the Southern Ocean coast making for some stunning scenery. The first stops were ...
Australia - Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... down on the sand enjoying the views and taking in the splendour of this particularly dramatic part of the the Great Ocean Road. Having ascended Gibsons Steps we climbed back into Gizmo and proceeded along the Great Ocean Road, through Apollo Bay ...
'Team Cobba'
This is a top pick! ... Warrnambool and back again in time for tea. Five days would have been a perfect timeframe for consuming the delights of the Great Ocean Road, that is taking time to get stuck into some of the less obvious attractions and spectacles along the way - there ...
The Long and winding road
This is a top pick! ... , up again at 9 we were ready for our first Ozzy road trip. A long journey laid ahead, the plan was to cruise along the great ocean road for the first day and up to the Grampians for the second day. I pick up Aimee and Charlotte (who I met in New ...
Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... to get parking tickets costing us fifty dollars each and another days budget. The next day were off for a date with The Great Ocean Road probably the most Iconic stretch of road in Australia and something I had really been looking forward to. At first ...
Bus Trip From Hell
This is a top pick! ... It didn't start brilliantly though, having to get to the bus for 7:30, driving around half of Melbourne and then along "Australia's most boring road, Melbourne to Geelong" as Ben put it. Even after the first 'proper' stop I was beginning to worry that ...
Enough is Enough
This is a top pick! ... in the direction of the Suburb of Geelong and our destination of Torquay and the start of the B100, better known as the Great Ocean Road. After 350km's drive it was great to be back at the beach again so took the opportunity to stretch my legs and ...
"Relocation relocation relocation...!"
This is a top pick! ... was picked up by a very excitable Dan and Aaron at the airport. Because I had been asleep the last time I travelled along The Great Ocean Road, and Aaron had never done it before, we drove along it again. Although the weather wasn't as good as before, it ...
Driving along The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! As the Blue Mountains deserves its own photo Album, then so does the stunning scenery of the Great Ocean ...
The Great (and it is!) Ocean Road!
This is a top pick! ... like it! The 12 apostles are also amazing and I guess itīs the image that you have in your head when you think of the Great Ocean Road. I was in the bad books as well as we had filled up all our memory cards so had to resort to a disposable camera and ...
The Great Ocean Road
... , it turned out to be easier than I thought and we were soon motoring down the M1 towards Torquay and the start of the Great Ocean Road. Torquay was pretty busy so we moved on to Anglesea and stayed the night in a small independent hostel with a moth ...
Road Trip!
We managed to pursuade Micheal to do the Great Ocean Road with us and Mike, as we could fit another space in the car. We did a bit of driving to Anglsea and dropped our things off at Tim and Louise's holiday home which they kindly lent to us for a couple ...
The Great Ocean Road
... cricket before sampling the local cuisine. We stayed for 1 night in Lorne and then drove the remaining stretch of the Great Ocean Road (The Shipwreck Coast - there are 200 known shipwrecks along here) up to Port Fairy, where we spent the night and ...
First night in the tent on a rest area...
... but we survived ;-) to be honest we were not ready and our lack of experience about camping in Australia made us beleive we could go sleeping wearing shorts and T-shirts... we were really really really wrong! On the way to the Great Ocean road... ...
Sept 18, 05 (Sunday)--Continued
The most famous section of the Great Ocean Road is the Twelve Apostles (now only 8), carved out of the soft limestone headland by fierce ocean waves. We headed inland for our overnight accommodation at the Log Cabin Ranch in Monbulk. The church service ...
A Scenic Tour
... Bay winding up and down hills and passing some really beautiful fields full of grazing cattle and sheep.After an hour or so the Great Ocean Roady goes back along the sea at Port Campbell National Park, where we had our stops at the scenic points. The ...
My Goldilocks Adventures in the Rainforest
... made us a nice breakfast. It was sad leaving the cabin, but the rest of the day was pretty nice. We traveled to Great Ocean Road and saw where the aboriginals lived for thousands of years. The rock formations have decayed and left pieces of rock in the ...
Great Ocean Road
... put the camera away it started to rain... But the weather had cleared again when we got to the B100, better known as the Great Ocean Road. First bit of coast that we got to is a really good area for surfing, so we jumped into our wetsuits and unloaded ...
Adelaide to Melbourne
... at the end made her turn GREEN and be grateful of solid ground!! What an exciting ride! The Great Ocean Road was beautiful and provided some fantastic experiences and sights .... but couldn't help thinking that Devon and ...
The spectacular "Great Ocean Road"
... apostles and the area around - but this section is so fantastic that we can only advise everyone to visit the Great Ocean Road during a trip to Australia. From Lourne it was another 2 hours to Melbourne. The capital of Victoria is well known as the great ...
Gaensehaut auf der Great Ocean Road.
... ist kein Wunder. Gut gelaunt ging es von der Restarea naehe Melbourne nach Torquay, einer kleinen Stadt, wo die Great Ocean Road beginnt. Die ganze Strecke ist gespickt mit vielen Lookouts also Aussichtspunkten,die einem einen tollen Ausblick bieten. Also ...
Sea, surf and the drive of your life
... along the route towards the coast, arriving at Port Campbell, home to probably the most easily recognisable image of the Great Ocean Road. The Twelve Apostles are a series of limestone outcroppings, created by erosion to the coastline. They're a big draw ...
