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Apollo Bay Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Apollo Bay, Australia
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... - Great Ocean Road - Teddy's Lookout - Lorne Beach for swimming and resting - Kennett River where we saw koalas - Patton Lookout - Apollo Bay It's an amazing day packed with loads of activity and sights. Jason is also a very chilled out guide allowing us ...
The Great Ocean Road
... fish every 30 seconds (that's not a joke). At this moment, we really thought: we need a fishing line!!! Then, we drove towards Apollo Bay and stopped at Kennet River (an Australian we meet the morning recommended us to stop there) so we had lunch in this ...
Sea Stacks, Rain Forest and Koalas
Left behind Victorian Port Fairy and headed for the surfing world at Apollo Bay. Great YHA here on a fabulous bay. Full of young people enjoying Australia if not the weather this week - really blowy. After a great Australian lunch I drove out to ...
Great Ocean Road
... actieve koala.. Nadat we een koala op ooghoogte hadden gezien, kwamen we aan op de parking van de oudste vuurtoren van Australi''. Door een onverantwoord hoge prijs om hem te kunnen zien besloten we onze rit verder te zetten. Een nog slechtere gravelweg ...
Apollo Bay
... afterwards took a stroll around the bay and little town. The beach was beautiful and the surf was amazing, probably more so with the stormy weather. Apollo Bay was a very sweet place – just a shame about the weather – ...
Going Inland
... cutters in the 1850's who subsequently established sawmills.Farmers later moved into the area and a small settlement on Apollo Bay named Middleton developed. A Post Office of that name (with a fortnightly mail delivery) opened on 1 May 1873 ...
Saturday On The Road
... , only coming in for lunch. Relying on signs to get me to Forrest but not seeing any, I ended up in Marengo, just past Apollo Bay before realising I'd come too far. I put Forrest into maps on my phone and found that I should have turned off back at ...
Apollo bay
Gelukkig, het weer is opgeklaard. Ik heb een hele mooie zonnige dag achter de rug, nog wel wat frisjes maar een kniesoor die daar over klaagt. Zeker na die sombere, koude en natte dagen. Het was een mooie tocht via de Great Ocean Road. Prachtige ...
GEELONG & THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
... on, the kids wanted to stop at Lorne, it looked gorgeous, but there really was nowhere to park the van, so we keep driving to Apollo Bay, where we got fuel & food and made our way out to 'Paradise' to free camp for the night (according to Wikicamps!) ...
Rainforests and more Rain
... were windy and steep too. Felt very achy in the shoulders as I was holding on to the wheel so tight! We arrived safely at Appollo Bay, our campsite for the night. On the way back from the loo Paul met 'nice lady and man with beard' again, could not ...
Surf, Rainforest and Koalas
... early Easter Sunday, good plan, not much traffic which in a city of 3 + million can be wild. We only drove 175 km to Apollo Bay but it took nearly all day, every little town along the way was like going through the Banff gates on a long weekend. However ...
The Magnificent Great Ocean Road Part I
... that I wouldn't be too scruplous with money and enjoy myself, I objected to paying £15 to look at a lighthouse. Seriously. I headed back to Apollo Bay to check in to my accomodation for the night, the YHA Eco Hostel. I can say without doubt it is by far ...
Otway Forest
... ;score! And they sold cookies! I bought a cookie and an internet stick. So we are back to blogging sooner than I thought. Apollo Bay, where we're going, is very small and finding internet access there would have been tough.] Our first stop was the ...
Jul
... op om det er skoldkopper eller roede hunde. Men vi kom til laegen og han gav hende noget penicilin. Vi blev et par ekstra dage i Apollo Bay, som var en hyggelig lille by med en ok strand, paa vejen til Apollo bay var vi ude og se Koalaer der hang oppe i ...
The GREAT Ocean Road
... cliff tops, then into hills with thick woodland on roads that were one hairpin after another. We stopped the night in Apollo Bay. We arrived at night, but knew we were near the sea because we could hear the waves. The hostel ...
On the Tourist Trail
... the air with a few thick roots holding them up, or have hollow trunks in which you can stand. It was a very wet rainforest walk! Apollo Bay was our stop for the night. We stayed at the Grandview Holiday Flats and had a BBQ with the meat we were supposed ...
Great Ocean Road
... komen het natuurgeweld achterlaten... Rockhampton, Brisbane en nu Melbourne... Na de overnachting in Torquay zijn we doorgereden naar Apollo Bay. Wat een prachtige weg was dat! Inderdaad de kronkelende kustweg met prachtige natuurplaatjes die we verwacht ...
Great Ocean Walk and X-Mas
December 23rd, Shaun and I set off for Apollo Bay, the starting point of our 8 day hike along the southern coast of Australia. We had no idea what lied ahead and what we were getting oursleves into!!!! Day one of the hike was a tough one. We had already ...
Jan 19, 2011
Great Ocean Road
Two days on the Great Ocean Road south west of Melbourne. Ship wreck coast, London Bridge, Loch Arde, Twelve ...
Are we're being stalked???
The road from Torquay to Apollo Bay was just amazing so picturesque. My highlight was stopping at the Koala Sanctuary at Kenneth River - Sooooooo coooollll, real koalas in their own habitat! The hostel was really nice as we were staying in the ...
Am großen Ozean…
Die erste Etappe die Marion und ich in meinem kleinen Eigenheim zurück legten ging die Great Ocean Road entlang. Von Melbourne ging es Richtung Westen immer an der Küste entlang. Eine wirklich beeindruckende Szenerie!! Steilküsten, Strände und im ...
Real life Wild Koalas! They don't do much do they
Day 119 – 19 January 2011 The great ocean road lay ahead of us next and so after saying my thanks and goodbyes to Susie, we hit the road again towards an ocean road that I know very little about. It was a scenic road I agree but calling it 'Great' ...
Great ocean road
... with Scott, an Australian friend I had met in Tilburg on Erasmus, and Andy, one of his mate. Driving on friday night to Apollo Bay where he has a beach house. Nice and cosy night drinking beer and playing guitar and ukulele. Saturday is the day to drive ...
Great Ocean Road
... few that were sleeping in the trees and managed to snap a few photos of the cute little bears. By evening, we ended up in Apollo's Bay, where we planned to stay the night. Apollo Bay is one of the bigger towns along the Great Ocean Road, with lots of ...
The Great Ocean Road
... we stopped looking up because we had seen our fill of bears and were developing a kink in our necks! Moving westward we came to Apollo Bay and relaxed for 2 days taking in the sights around town as well as the beach. The ocean is still too cold to ...
And back to the mainland
... in Melbourne briefly before picking up our hire car and heading for the Great Ocean Road. Picked up some information at Geelong and lunch by the sea, and ended the day at Apollo Bay, having called in at Torquay and Lorne. What a beautiful stretch of ...
The Great Ocean Road
... så informativ som de var i Victor Harbour, vi begiver os dog afsted alligevel. Vores første stop på GOR er The Bay of Island, derefter The Grotto og til sidst, London Bridge, det ene mere overvældende end det andet. Der er flere til i ...
Flat Whites Rule.
... put this on hold for a time.) The Drive along The Great Ocean Road, so far, has been beautiful and lots more to go. Apollo Bay is a lovely town with lots of restaurants and bars. Very touristy. Tomorrow we are off to Otway National Park and up into more ...