Monday, October 29, 2012

Great Ocean Road, Round 2

Journal Notes:

  • Fisherman's Beach, Torquay
  • ANZAC Memorial
  • Split Point Lighthouse and the greedy magpie
  • Lorne, Erskine Falls, and Teddy's Lookout
  • Sheoak Falls
  • Apollo Bay - good beer, pizza, and a pancake breakfast
  • Mait's Rest
  • Dropbears!
  • Horden Vale
  • Blown away at Castle Cove
  • Free Bird!
  • Gibson Steps
  • Take only pictures.  Leave only footprints (12 Apostles)
  • London Bridge, The Grotto, and Loch Ard Gorge


Pictures:

Fisherman's Beach in Torquay




Analemmic sundial on Fisherman's Beach

Which one's the minute hand?




Point Danger

ANZAC Memorial - Point Danger







Bell's Beach




Remember that children's TV show, Round The Twist?  Yeah, me neither.
But if you did, you'd probably recognize Split Point Lighthouse


At the Swing Bridge in Lorne

Swing Bridge - Lorne



Big hollow tree stump at Erskine Falls



Erskine Falls




... so the mushroom says, "Why don't you like me?  I'm a fun guy."

This was a Nissan Patrol

Teddy's Lookout - Lorne


The perfect pancake (the one on top)

Myrtle beech roots at Mait's Rest, in the Otways

Tree-fern

Baby tree-fern



Myrtle beech


Fungus growing on a log


We saw some dropbears on the road to Cape Otway lighthouse

About two seconds later, he pounced on a backpacker

The two in this picture were swaying wildly in the breeze

Castle Cove, near Glenaire
The shape of the rocks channeled the wind into a really powerful jet here.
We had fun trying to open the doors on the left-hand side of the car.

This is either Castle Cove or Gibson Steps.  I'm not sure which

At the foot of Gibson Steps




Good on ya, Aldo


At Twelve Apostles.
The weather turned really bad here, so I only ended up with this picture this time around.

The Grotto
Something really cool happened here on the way back to the car.
Check the videos below





Loch Ard Gorge

On 1 June, 1878, the Loch Ard crashed here, on what has become known as "Shipwreck Coast".
She was lost with over 50 souls on board.  There were only two survivors.







Compare with the picture below

Shipwreck Coast

Mutton Bird Island, where the Loch Ard ran aground

Sea foam






Left to right:
Michaela, Aldo, Marielle, and Angela

This looks like desert scrub.
What's it doing on Shipwreck Coast?

On the way back we saw some cool rays of sunlight

Videos:
Dropbear

London Bridge

That's not snow

Don't put this stuff in your car