Great Ocean Road - Australia
8/1/05
The real fun was begun on this day. We picked up a rental car in the morning and left for the Great Ocean Road. It runs northwest from Melbourne to Torquay and hugs the coastline for over 300 kilometers until reaching Warrnambool.
Our first stop was at Anglesea where the Split Point lighthouse built in 1891 is located.
From that spot we had a nice view of the beginning of the ocean road.
Click here for a Panoramic of the Coast
We then kept going until we saw a dozen cars stopped on the side of the road with everybody outside staring at the ocean; of course, we stopped too to figure out what was going on. It was two massive whales swimming just by the beach. It was impressive. A bit further on the road, we enjoyed an excellent lunch while looking at the magnificent view of the sea. All along the coast, there were plenty of viewpoints where from you can see different splendid things and guess what, we stopped at almost all of them. Not to get you bored with landscape pictures, here are some stupid ones.
Port Campbell Bay was one of the most picturesque parts of the coast and, indeed, it is the most photographed part on the road. The Twelve Apostles, which are now only 11 due to the collapse of one of them, are huge rocks standing in the water close to the coast.
The area nearby is rich in unusual formations. Here is the Arch ...
...and the London Bridge.
We also stopped at the Bay of Martyrs where we watched the sunset and the Bay of Islands.
When we reached the end of this scenic road, it was already dark. We spent the night in Warrnambool which is famous for Southern Right whale watching. Almost every year between June and September, female whales return to the waters of Warrnambool's Logan's Beach to calve. The whales often swim within a hundred meters of the shore and can be viewed from a specially constructed platform in the sand dunes or from the beach
The whales can grow up to 18 meters and weight 96 tons. We set up the alarm clock for early next morning to get to the platform at sunrise and do some more whale watching.
The real fun was begun on this day. We picked up a rental car in the morning and left for the Great Ocean Road. It runs northwest from Melbourne to Torquay and hugs the coastline for over 300 kilometers until reaching Warrnambool.
Our first stop was at Anglesea where the Split Point lighthouse built in 1891 is located.
From that spot we had a nice view of the beginning of the ocean road.
Click here for a Panoramic of the Coast
We then kept going until we saw a dozen cars stopped on the side of the road with everybody outside staring at the ocean; of course, we stopped too to figure out what was going on. It was two massive whales swimming just by the beach. It was impressive. A bit further on the road, we enjoyed an excellent lunch while looking at the magnificent view of the sea. All along the coast, there were plenty of viewpoints where from you can see different splendid things and guess what, we stopped at almost all of them. Not to get you bored with landscape pictures, here are some stupid ones.
Port Campbell Bay was one of the most picturesque parts of the coast and, indeed, it is the most photographed part on the road. The Twelve Apostles, which are now only 11 due to the collapse of one of them, are huge rocks standing in the water close to the coast.
The area nearby is rich in unusual formations. Here is the Arch ...
...and the London Bridge.
We also stopped at the Bay of Martyrs where we watched the sunset and the Bay of Islands.
When we reached the end of this scenic road, it was already dark. We spent the night in Warrnambool which is famous for Southern Right whale watching. Almost every year between June and September, female whales return to the waters of Warrnambool's Logan's Beach to calve. The whales often swim within a hundred meters of the shore and can be viewed from a specially constructed platform in the sand dunes or from the beach
The whales can grow up to 18 meters and weight 96 tons. We set up the alarm clock for early next morning to get to the platform at sunrise and do some more whale watching.
posted by Adriano and Angie | 8:35 PM
1 Comments:
this is Jean-Pierre, together with Dagmar,Amber and Jeff, the four of us in deep Burgundy (Frankreich). It looks as if you are enjoying your trip quite a lot. Take every moment as an eternity, and stay in good shape. Your photos are outstanding, you'll have to copyright some. We are all thinking of you, with our warmest regards.
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