Election Day!

It's not exactly the Opera House, but you get the idea

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