1995/11 Australia trip - Great Ocean Road |
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We then headed for the coast and Port Fairy. This little town hasn’t changed much in 50 years. The buildings are much as they were when it was a fishing port, so it was a nice place to stop for a Devon tea and make some phone calls.
Then, we were on the coast and driving the Great Ocean Road. The scenery here is really spectacular, with high cliffs heavily eroded by the sea. This makes for deep inlets, sea stacks, arches, and caves, so we spent the rest of the day climbing down to beaches, and photographing cliffs and rocks.
At the Grotto, I got down to sea level in a cave, with the waves exploding over the entrance. At London Bridge, the main arch had 
recently collapsed into the sea, but the smaller one was still there.
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Great Ocean Road (19.27) |
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Of course, all this stuff was fun, but took time. It was also raining and windy, so we were steadily getting wetter and wetter, and by the time we got to the Twelve Apostles, a group of sea stacks, we were well soaked. We thought we’d make up time at the end of the road when it got dark, but that end turned out to be a sequence of arm-twirlers, with enough road works to make it really muddy and slippery.
We were able to warn John and Edna that we’d miscalculated, so they weren’t too surprised when we rolled in at 10:30pm. Robert had given us good directions so, despite being dumped in the middle of downtown by the not-quite-connected freeway, we got through Melbourne and out to the Dandenong area without much of a problem.