Then it was onto the actual Great Ocean Road.
We stopped and looked at and walked around EVERY spot marked with a brown tourist 'must see' sign. This took a bit of stamina as there was heaps of them. Each and every one well worth the stop. The scenery was incredible, beautiful, majestic, awesome and in some places, crowded!
To complete our travels for day one of this trip we continued on to Apollo Bay and stayed the night at a lovely cabin in a caravan park.
The road from the Twelve Apostles to Apollo Bay is one long windy bend. Very pretty scenery but one bend after another and all tight enough to need extremely low speeds. By the end of it I was feeling sick and giddy.
We began day two of our trip by backtracking for 20kms to go to the Cape Otway Lighthouse Complex. This one is on the most southern point of the Victorian mainland. We saw the Telegraph Station, the Head Light keepers house and the lighthouse. I actually climbed to the top of it which is a first for me. Himself has climbed a lighthouse before so was eager to show off his knowledge. The views from up there were awesome. Definitely worth the huff and puff to get there.
As we were leaving the complex we spotted a couple of koalas in the trees so stopped to take a picture then realised that there were koalas in nearly every tree around us. We had happened upon a whole colony of them.
Going back into Apollo Bay we continued our journey.
From Apollo Bay to Torquay is the most famous portion of the Great Ocean Road. This is where the road runs right along the edge of the sea. The scenery is breath taking and they got lots more bends! It is 91.6kms of non stop twists and turns with another Ahhhhh around every corner.
Along the way we passed through Kennet River, Wye River, Lorne, Aireys Inlet, Anglesea, Torquay. At Aireys Inlet we stopped to check out the Split Point Lighthouse. Much taller than the Cape Otway one.
Between Anglesea and Torquay is the world famous Bells Beach. Bells Beach is Australia's most well known surfing beach. While we were there several young lads were out on the water catching waves. Looked good.
Continuing on we turned just before reaching Geelong and came back to Horsham through Winchelsea, Colac, Camperdown, Mortlake, Lake Bolac, Ararat, Stawell and finally back to our little home which we left parked at our daughters place.
Between Winchelsea and Colac it rained. It bucketed down making it difficult to see very far in front of us. The rain eased after an hour and all the way back we saw puddles on the road. Two tired travellers tonight but happy we have seen The Great Ocean Road, Bells Beach and The Twelve Apostles.
Postscript: On both days of our journey we passed the standard issue international bike rider travelling Australia on a push bike.
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