in the morning with bags and snacks ready, phil picked us up in the really nice hire car and we set off. we made our way out of geelong and past torquay towards anglesea.
the road from anglesea down to apollo bay hugs the coastline and the views are amazing.
we stopped for a couple of hours at lorne, which is one of the main tourist areas along the great ocean road. it was packed full of people but seemed a really nice area. we stopped for a drink and a play in the sea. the waves were huge!
after leaving lorne we headed towards apollo bay stopping at a historic spot on the way. in the picture you should just be able to see a tiny metal ball in the sea, thats all thats left of a ship that was shipwrecked there. the grave is for the captian of the ship, who actually died on board before the ship went down.
after this stop we drove down through apollo bay and on towards otway national park. on the way we saw a koala bear in a tree, but unfortunately we couldnt stop to take a picture. we found a sign for a rainforest walk and despite my moaning about big spiders and flying things we took the turn off and stopped to do the walk. i was nervous but we all caked ourselves in bug repellent and set off.
it was actually really good and i'm really glad we did it. we saw a few webs but no bugs at all.
i was still scared though, and i think the boys were too. they kept jumping at little things like leaves and flies, we've got some great video footage on the lads video camera.
we saw this tree and i thought it would make a really good picture. i tried to persuade someone to stand under it while i took a picture and finally geo agreed but made me take it as quickly as possible.
after the rainforest walk we tried to go on the otway flyway but it was closed as it was early evening by then, so we headed for port campbell to find somewhere to stay.
on the way we stopped off at the most famous spot on the great ocean road, the 12 apostles (though theres only about 8 now i think).
there were flies everywhere so we spent most of the time trying to fight them off, but inbetween this the views of the apostles were amazing.
another famous spot a bit further on from the apostles is lock ard gorge, so we stopped to have a look at that too.
this is the blowhole, water gets pushed through the cave and it's quite a sight. the other side of the blow hole is thunder cave. we didn't see it on a particularly good day, some days the waves there are meant to be amazing.
after taking enough pictures of rocks to last a lifetime we carried on our way to port campbell. we thought it would be a busy, quite big port, but we were suprised to see that it was about the size of compstall. all the hotels were booked up so we carried on to the next town, peterborough. again this was a tiny little place and again there was no room at the inn, so we carried on heading for the big town of warrnambool.
we reached warrnambool, all of us praying for somewhere to have a room and more so for somewhere to eat. luckily we found a room at a local motel and were soon having something to eat in a nice restaurant on one of the main streets.
after eating we found an irish pub so went in for a few drinks. there was some live music too which was really good. gc and geo soon decided that they wanted to make it a big night and gc was on the smirnoff black ice in no time!
me and greg left the rest of the lads around 1am and went to bed. we thought that would be the last we would hear of them that night but around 5am we were woken by the sound of geo's voice and a load banging on our door. after a while they quietened down and we all went to sleep.
the next day, suprisingly we all got up fairly early. we thought we'd carry on along the great ocean road but got as far as port fairy and realised it wasn't getting better it was getting worse and that back nearer otways and lorne was far better. so we headed back the way we came.
you would have thought that we had taken enough pictures of big rocks, but no, we hadn't, we stopped at the bay of islands for a few more.
we then stopped off at the otways flyway, which was really good. it's a rainforest walk but really high up in the canopy.
the tower in the background was really high up and swayed when we were up there.
this is the view from the top of the tower.
after this walk we stopped off to see the triplet falls. this was another rainforest walk but it was up and down loads of steps and it was really tiring but felt good after we had done it.
once we had made it back to lorne we soon found that there was no rooms free, plus it was raining loads so we decided to call it a day and go back to geelong for a meal to finish off a really good couple of days.
well done if you have managed to read all this, i know it's been a long one but there was a lot to cover.
hope everyones well, miss you all. x x x x
5 comments:
wow! My eys were hurting after reading all of that! :-)
It looks as though your all having a great time.
Amy, Dominic is being childminded by Michelle now, as my dad has gone back to work today.
Have fun!
Hailz xx
That looked a bit good. Gc, you could really do with some sun cream, you're redder than Stalin.
And Geo, those shorts look like a red version of Marshy's infamous "boxers"
See you all soon,
Perce
Hahaha. I've just read the exclusive interview with yourself, Gregory, on www.inthenews.co.uk.
Or as the author himself described it: "I have immortalised Greg in text".
have a safe trip !!!dont lose any thing else.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"we thought that would be the last we would hear of them that night but around 5am we were woken by the sound of geo's voice and a load banging on our door." - brilliant.
all the pics look great. especially the rainforest I would have loved to see that.
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