Great Ocean Road

Trip Start Sep 05, 2004
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Trip End Sep 24, 2004


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Flag of Australia  , Victoria,
Thursday, September 9, 2004

We spent the entire day in Port Campbell National Park, which has all sorts of interesting sights. After having breakfast in Port Campbell, we made our first stop at Gibson Steps. This is an area of cliffs with a staircase leading down to the beach. It was pretty windy and cool out so we were out in multiple layers once again.

The steps were pretty cool and nobody was there so we had the beach to ourselves. We continued a few minutes up the road to the Twelve Apostles. This was also fairly empty so we didn't have to fight for a good view of the rocks. The Apostles are a series of limestone stacks aligned close together and staggered so you can take really nice photos of them. The sight is still referred to as Twelve Apostles though I could only count eight or nine. Apparently there was once twelve but some have fallen into the waves as erosion on the stacks continues.

A little further along we stopped again at Loch Ard Gorge. Here the Loch Ard sank in 1878, leaving only two survivors. There are a lot of interesting rock formations due to erosion here as well. You can walk down some steps to the beach so we did that and checked out the surrounding cliffs from below.

We also checked out another famous rock formation once called "London Bridge" as it formed a natural double-span bridge. The arch closest to the shoreline has collapsed, and the remaining arch is now known as "London Arch".

We made one last stop in the park at the Grotto, which is actually a sink hole. We walked down to the beach here as well. Then we hit the next park, the Bay of Islands Coastal Park. We stopped for a few photo ops here.

From there we drove straight to Warnambool for the night. We met up with a girl Mandy used to babysit named Laura and had a nice dinner with her.
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