new day, a new early, this time we expect a 24 seat minibus just outside the hostel at 7.30 am, destination Great Ocean Road along the west coast of Melbourne.
The official website of the tour can be found at the following link: Great Ocean Road Tour
enstende This long road for 300 kilometers of coastline from Melbourne to Port Campbell, curve after curve, beach after beach, never the same throughout, with beautiful landscapes, such as to leave no words, and in some cases, out of breath!
Returning to the trip, once you get to Melbourne, we went through the second city 'of the great state of Victoria: Geelong, a quiet town 10 km from the sea.
Geelong Pass, we enter the B100 road, or the Great Ocean Road. The first country 'Torquay, the surfing capital of Victoria state, in this city you can find stores and outlets with the most prestigious brands, it is the birthplace Quicksilver and Rip Curl, famous Australian brand! Continue for this wonderful way to get at Bells Beach, 7 miles west of Torquay
, this beach is legendary because every year there is a stage of world championship surfing during the Easter period. The beach is a small bay and you can visit along the ravine that divides the sea from the city, a veritable mountain path!
time in this stage was not the best, I had to wear a sweatshirt because the wind was strong enough and cold, but a good hot tea, we pulled up the moral in the midst of this cold, the ocean was a professional surfer who was training! Crazy!
All ready, back on the bus, the guide was kind of a mix between Schumacher and Casey Stoner, my English friend was quite concerned by the speed and the constant twists and turns, really fun. Here
to the next stage: "The White Queen", or The Split Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1891, originally called the eagle's nest, is white with red roof and looks out over Eagle Rock. The lighthouse is completely surrounded by lush green bushes, a cliff on the ocean, you can also see a rock (Eagle Rock) alone, as a rock, a few meters from the lighthouse. Post the link of the site: The Split Point Lighthouse . The path around the lighthouse is a few hundred meters, all immersed in the bushes, really nice!
After this pause for about twenty minutes, it still comes back on the bus racing, bow direction of the Great Ocean Road! The bow is a sign of recognition of this street and a pmaggio to those who built it and those who died during the First World War. Reference: www.greatoceanrd.com.au .
After the stop, again via bus, through turns and straight, always accompanied the ocean and beautiful beaches on the left and a large vegetation on the right. It goes faster and faster ...
Here, at lunchtime, arrived in Apollo Bay, this village was originally just a fishing village, but today has become a great camping! Walking Apollo Bay you can see koalas sleep in trees (strano. ..) and photograph them, but it is illegal to touch them, as in all other states of Australia except Queensland.
had finished eating we returned to our bus, ready to compete with other tourist minibuses along the road that overlooks the channel Bass (Bass Strait), which is the strait that separates Australia from Tazmania (Taz Taz), some people begin to be nervous to the rider, others are beginning to change the color of their skin white or green ... I enjoy!
begins in the afternoon and the sun finally appears at the beginning a bit 'timid and later increasingly strong, the mood changes for the better! Next stop rainforest.
Mait's Rest Rainforest is a rainforest, it seems to be in the middle of the Amazon, only that I am in Australia, in summer, 5 km from the ocean! Everything around me is green, the plants that are there are very low to very high, as I had never seen! The route is a mile, maybe less, of ups and downs and wooden bridges!
By now the sun is shining over our heads and scrap the minibus, we go in the direction of the 12 apostles FINALLY those 12 stacks I've ever seen in the picture come true!
Here we take the road overlooking the ocean and this is finally the good old apostles (one collapsed in 2004 if I remember correctly), I remain speechless for at least 5 minutes and my English friend is appalled by this show just got lucky to see them with the sunshine and cloudless!
The path to the 12 Apostles is a path that leads directly to a sort of peninsula overlooking the ocean where you can see on the right most of the apostles and the other on the left! Paying 60 dollars (36 Euros) is can take a ride in a helicopter and fly over the area.
The only downside are the millions of flies buzzing around you, nose, ears and everywhere, really annoying!
fascinated by these wonders we go to Loch Ard George, a beach set in a small bay where the entrance is a sort of passing through two small rocks! The water is crystal clear and around on walls you can see stalactites and stalagmites, especially in small crevices!
You return the minibus towards Port Campbell, the last city to be visited before returning to Melbourne. There remains only one thing to visit: London Bridge!
The London Bridge is a rock formation, a cliff with two arches, forming a peninsula between the coast and the ocean. In 1990, following sea erosion, the part that connected the tip of the peninsula to the coast has collapsed, leaving a rock in the middle of the sea forming arc, spectacular!
This is the Great Ocean Road, one day probably is not enough to fully enjoy it and probably a few hundred lines can only give a glimpse of what really is a spectacle of nature!
Continued ... Alice Springs
, this beach is legendary because every year there is a stage of world championship surfing during the Easter period. The beach is a small bay and you can visit along the ravine that divides the sea from the city, a veritable mountain path!
time in this stage was not the best, I had to wear a sweatshirt because the wind was strong enough and cold, but a good hot tea, we pulled up the moral in the midst of this cold, the ocean was a professional surfer who was training! Crazy!
All ready, back on the bus, the guide was kind of a mix between Schumacher and Casey Stoner, my English friend was quite concerned by the speed and the constant twists and turns, really fun. Here
to the next stage: "The White Queen", or The Split Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1891, originally called the eagle's nest, is white with red roof and looks out over Eagle Rock. The lighthouse is completely surrounded by lush green bushes, a cliff on the ocean, you can also see a rock (Eagle Rock) alone, as a rock, a few meters from the lighthouse. Post the link of the site: The Split Point Lighthouse . The path around the lighthouse is a few hundred meters, all immersed in the bushes, really nice!
After this pause for about twenty minutes, it still comes back on the bus racing, bow direction of the Great Ocean Road! The bow is a sign of recognition of this street and a pmaggio to those who built it and those who died during the First World War. Reference: www.greatoceanrd.com.au .
After the stop, again via bus, through turns and straight, always accompanied the ocean and beautiful beaches on the left and a large vegetation on the right. It goes faster and faster ...
Here, at lunchtime, arrived in Apollo Bay, this village was originally just a fishing village, but today has become a great camping! Walking Apollo Bay you can see koalas sleep in trees (strano. ..) and photograph them, but it is illegal to touch them, as in all other states of Australia except Queensland.
had finished eating we returned to our bus, ready to compete with other tourist minibuses along the road that overlooks the channel Bass (Bass Strait), which is the strait that separates Australia from Tazmania (Taz Taz), some people begin to be nervous to the rider, others are beginning to change the color of their skin white or green ... I enjoy!
begins in the afternoon and the sun finally appears at the beginning a bit 'timid and later increasingly strong, the mood changes for the better! Next stop rainforest.
Mait's Rest Rainforest is a rainforest, it seems to be in the middle of the Amazon, only that I am in Australia, in summer, 5 km from the ocean! Everything around me is green, the plants that are there are very low to very high, as I had never seen! The route is a mile, maybe less, of ups and downs and wooden bridges!
By now the sun is shining over our heads and scrap the minibus, we go in the direction of the 12 apostles FINALLY those 12 stacks I've ever seen in the picture come true!
Here we take the road overlooking the ocean and this is finally the good old apostles (one collapsed in 2004 if I remember correctly), I remain speechless for at least 5 minutes and my English friend is appalled by this show just got lucky to see them with the sunshine and cloudless!
The path to the 12 Apostles is a path that leads directly to a sort of peninsula overlooking the ocean where you can see on the right most of the apostles and the other on the left! Paying 60 dollars (36 Euros) is can take a ride in a helicopter and fly over the area.
The only downside are the millions of flies buzzing around you, nose, ears and everywhere, really annoying!
fascinated by these wonders we go to Loch Ard George, a beach set in a small bay where the entrance is a sort of passing through two small rocks! The water is crystal clear and around on walls you can see stalactites and stalagmites, especially in small crevices!
You return the minibus towards Port Campbell, the last city to be visited before returning to Melbourne. There remains only one thing to visit: London Bridge!
The London Bridge is a rock formation, a cliff with two arches, forming a peninsula between the coast and the ocean. In 1990, following sea erosion, the part that connected the tip of the peninsula to the coast has collapsed, leaving a rock in the middle of the sea forming arc, spectacular!
This is the Great Ocean Road, one day probably is not enough to fully enjoy it and probably a few hundred lines can only give a glimpse of what really is a spectacle of nature!
Continued ... Alice Springs
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