The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road lives up to the name. It is approximately 150 miles of winding,ocean coast road along the south eastern coast of Australia between Tourquay and Warrambool. This road was built by soldiers returning home between 1919-1932. It's the world's largest memorial dedicated to casualties of WW1. It includes several prominent landmarks, one of which is nationally significant, The Twelve Apostles. Enjoy these limestone stack formations! 

And we were excited to see so many koalas in the wild. We stopped counting after seeing 50 of them.

Notice our camper van in the background

There were only 9 stacks to begin with and now 6 as the waves have played havoc. They were named apparently for tourism promotion.

 


These two amazing stacks were directly on the other side of the observation deck from the Apostles.






It was difficult to get all 6 of them in one single picture. The best view would have been from the air. The wind was gusting at 45 km/hr that day and although the helicopters were still flying, we chose not to go by air this time!

Other stacks and limestone formations were just as breathtaking, well worth the walk to see them .

The Gorge

The Grotto

The Grotto

London Bridge.  The entire bridge once gave access to the tip of this outcropping. It washed away Jan 15/90

And The Arch

For the bird lovers. A male and female Splendid Fairy Wren

And a Pied Cormorant taken at full zoom on the video camera!