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| Great Ocean Road |
| Otway Fly |
| 12 Apostles |
| Lornes Waterfall |
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Well, better late than never; myself, Alice, Jennifer, and Elison travelled down the Great Ocean Road last week.
Great road to drive fast on, but during the bends and turns, it can be fun making strong turns with your car, albiet dangerous. I drove properly of course because I did have passengers after all.
Beautiful scenary as people say, but as one friend commented, the driver does miss out on half of it as you'd need to concentrate on the road more.
In a quick nutshell, we left Wednesday morning, stayed at Apollo Bay, had a quick swim that Wednesday, visited Otway Fly and 12 Apostles on Thursday, and visited Lornes Erskine Waterfall on Friday, before returning home that afternoon.
Driving to Apollo Bay was not an easy task. Not only was it a long drive, but as mentioned, there were a lot of turns, and a lot of sharp ones also where I had to slow down to turn safely, especially with on coming cars.
Also, there were a lot of drivers who liked speeding down the Great Ocean Road so there were numerous quick stops on the side to let them through before continuing; it's basically a one lane roaad.
Once we arrived at the apartment we rented in Apollo Bay, we unloaded, got ourselves organised, and went for a quick dip at the beach. It turned out the water was too cold for any of them to swim, so I ended up swimming alone for a bit.
This first day was very relaxed and simple, we went to eat, and went home to rest.
Thursday was more involved as we travelled up to Otway Fly and 12 Apostles.
We had a pitstop for lunch, which had some nice views.
Yes, I'm fascinated by different patterns.
Otway Fly was a forest where apparently prehistoric dinosaurs had once roamed. There was one section which had human sized model dinosaurs for show.
As you reach the end of the forest, you find the entrance to a walking beam 25m high so you'd be walking along midpoint of the trees. At the turning point before coming back, there was also a viewing point 45m in the air, close to the top of the trees. The viewing point also swayed a little, which was apparently part of the experience.
We were the last ones to leave and it was 5:30pm just as we were finished and heading back; which was also closing time for the forest. We got a lift back from one of the employees who were checking the forest for anyone who was still walking along the forest.
After Otway Fly, we drove down to the 12 Apostles. From what I heard, there's only around 7 left.
Our original goal was also to sit there and watch the sunset, but everyone got hungry and wanted to go back home to eat; so much for a beautiful sunset.
Even now, I wonder how we would get onto the beach as someone got down there somehow and wrote some things in the sand.
Also, I was told that the London Bridge was a part of the 12 Apostles, to which now that I think about it, I might have seen it, without realising it.
London Bridge, which part of it had collapsed, also reminding me of the nursery song 'London Bridge is falling down'.
When we got back home, it was pretty late, and we were hoping to find some restaurants or something that may open late. it was only around 6pm or so, and most shops were all closed. Only a couple of fish and chip shops remained.
I'm not sure who, but one of us commented on how early the darn shops closed, and a couple of tourist next to us replied how shocked they were of it also.
They were from Florida and was down in Australia for a vacation and have just come down from Sydney.
Albert was a multi-business owner, and his wife, Beatrice, if I categorise this correctly, was in the herbal medical field, and also did acupuncture.
They were very nice people and even shouted us for dessert, even though we hadn't eaten a meal yet.
On the final day, we visited the Lornes Waterfall before returning back to Melbourne.
Along the way, we stopped at a random coastal beach to relax and get a few pictures. Elison found a baby crab and because all it's legs and claws were missing except one of each, we teased Elison for bullying the crab and ripping off its limbs, whether he did or not.
On our way through to the waterfall, the entrance in had a very steep hill downwards. This was when I recalled and mentioned that on Burwood Highway, there was an uphill which my car struggles to get up, and now with passengers, and luggage, I wonder if my car will even make it back up this hill. Everyone had a few frights and doubts, but we decided to go down either way.
Amazingly, my car went up the hill without any problems at all... Stupid Burwood Highway...
So we started walking down to the waterfall and followed the stream through.
There was a sign which warned only for intermediate rock climbers to climb only, to which we ignored and climbed.
Which was worth it as we got a great view.
This short vacational road trip was great fun and very relaxing, even though it consisted of long drives.
The air was extremely good and very cool, which we loved on the way home after all these hot days.
I have goals to go again and visit other locations I missed, but to also visit other waterfalls in Victoria.
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