Day.27, 28 & 29 G.O.R. Apollo Bay to Lorne & on to Queenscliff

 Off air for the the last couple of days as we were at a beautiful free camp in the hills behind Lorne with little or no internet access.
Another day on the GOR to a free camp in the mountains behind Lorne.
Apollo Bay was the dearest site of our entire trip & the shittiest park, overcrowded dirty toilets & no maintenance.
Today we arrived at Queenscliff & met up with Jo & Kevin McClean, who are staying in the local van park for 8 days. We have booked into the same van park for the next 3 nights, right next door to Jo & Kevin.

 

Some more pics on the GOR on the way to Apollo Bay.

 

Plenty of crazy bikies.

 

 

Endless GOR views.

 

 

Plenty of twists & turns.

 

 

GOR sometimes on the beach.

 

 

Some tough swimmers in very cold water.

 

 

The areas near Lorne, burnt out in the Black Saturday fires in 2009.

 

 

The view from Tedys' lookout at Lorne.

 

 

Same as above.

 

 

Pano...

Selfie at Teddys' lookout.

 

Freecamp at the top of Big Hill, in the mountains behind Lorne.

 

Great location.

 

A visitor comes for a feed.

 

He sent out for his friends to come & join in.

 

 

Heading out on an afternoon walk.

 

 

Following an old logging trail.

 

 

A fern in a tree stump.

 

 

Greg in a tree stump.

 

 Me doing the blog.

 

Wendy having guests for dinner.

 

Me.

 

 

A Koala just near the camp site.

 

 

A statue commemorating diggers who built the Great Ocean Road.

 

 

The GOR sign.

 

 

Another lighthouse, they all look the same, a red roof & white walls.

We have now seen enough light houses, no more please.

 

A lonely Apostle near the end of the GOR. 

 

A back packer offered to take this pic.

 

 

The van park at Queenscliff with the 3 vans from the Fraser Coast.

 

 

Afternoon drinks after meting up with Jo & Kevin at Queenscliff, south of Melbourne.

 

Day.24 & 25 & 26 Great Ocean Road

Well, back again after a 3 day break. Day 1, not much happened.
Day 2, Plenty happened but got carried away at afternoon drinks & got a little pissed. Day 3 is now.

Day 24 was a pleasant, easy day at Portland where we attended a free Australia day breakfast followed by a very long walk around the town & port, an afternoon snooze & a little grocery shopping.

Day 25 saw us on the Great Ocean Road, proper. Overnight at Port Campbell.
Today was more ocean road & tonight we are in Apollo Bay.
There will be a shit load of pictures of rocks, which looked great in real life, but more ordinary in pictures.
Today, day 26, is our wedding anniversary so we celebrated by having fish & chips for dinner.

 

Australia Day celebrations in Portland.

 

7 New Australian citizens Naturalised at the breakfast.

 

Portland Harbour.

 

 

Portland botanical gardens.

 

 

The well maintained Portland water front.

 

 

The tram goes past the caravan park every hour or so.

 

 

The Portland breakwater stretches well over 1k out to sea.

 

 

Whalers point light house.

 

 

Portland.

 

 

The wide tree lined streets of Port Fairy.

 

Port fairy water front.

 

 

Port Fairy street scene. We had morning tea at the bakery.

 

These are not the 12 apostles but very similar ones between Peterborough & Port Campbell. 

 

No wonder these fall over occasionally.

 

Pano......... 

 

Blue on blue.

 

 

Can't get enough of these rocks.

 

 

Lunch stop at Peterborough.

 

 

 Pano......

 This formation is known as London bridge. It used to have 2 arches & was connected to the mainland. On the the 15th January 1990 the first arch collapsed, leaving 2 people stranded on the newly formed island.

Yvonne & fat boy at London bridge.

Pano of London bridge. 

 

The bay at Port Campbell.

 

 

Port Campbell. 

 

Yvonne.

 

 

Port Campbell beach.

 

 Port Campbell pano..

 

More big rocks beside the road, leaving Port Campbell.

 

 Pano...

 

Another big ocean going rock.

 

 Pano of big ocean going rock.

 

A cave in the cliffs.

 

 The point of rock at sea level in this picture was the location of one of the many ship wrecks along this coast. It took place in 1878 after 3 months at sea from England, they were due to sail into Melbourne the next day, everyone on the ship was lost except 2 survivors.

 

Another pretty inlet.

 

 

Wendy & Greg beachside near some more rocks.

 

 

Yvonne & yours truly, same spot.

 

This IS the 12 Apostles ( In reality its 7.5 Apostles ).

 12 Apostles pano...

 

Our anniversary picture.

 

 

More rocks.

 

 

Cliffs near the rocks. 

 

Short video of rocks & water.

 

More rocks...

 

 

One of the many helicopters doing flights around the rocks.

 

 

The lush mountain roads around Lavers Hill.

 

Same area.

 

 

Coming down the range into Apollo Bay.

 

 

Old forrest destroyed by fire near Cape Otway.

 

Apollo Bay beach.