The Great Ocean Rd is a stunning trip along the coast of
Victoria. Beautiful blue seas, crashing white waves, creeks and cliff; with a
scattering of small villages along its 150mile length. It’s a surfer’s paradise and so picturesque
you take far too many pictures.
It was easy to get off the road and footpaths led to some
pristine countryside. We’ve been reading
a book by Bill Bryson about Australia and it’s nice to know that of the top ten
most venomous snakes in the world, all ten live in Australia, its similr for spiders,
lizards and they even have the world’s only venomous mammal, makes you think
as you push through the undergrowth…
The road was built between 1919 and 1932 as job creation
scheme for returning WW1 soldiers. It opened up the whole area for trade and
tourism.
Strangely the forest and scrublands looked like the ones in Portugal – almost felt like being at home.
In Vietnam, the locals have a saying “same same; but
different” – it even appears on t-shirts; this area of Australia is a bit like
that , from the distant it looks familiar but the closer you look everything is
subtly different, either bigger, brighter coloured, louder, smaller towns.
We’re stopping half way along it for a couple of nights at a
place called Apollo Bay, it’s the crayfish season so Carole is planning a
seafood fest tomorrow. This is the view Jan and Bob's tenner had from the veranda.
You have no idea how long it took to take these next pictures, all I can say is Carole has a lot more patience than me! They were being fed just next to the veranda.
Just where are we?
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