Great Ocean Road

A feat of engineering created by men returning from WW1, almost a sort of make-work project on a grand scale.  Certainly worth it.  There are now quicker more modern roads to make the same journey, so it is mainly packed with tourists.  The wooden archway which provides its start point coming from Melbourne is on its third version and I have tried to capture part of it with the statue to the men who worked on the construction.

We stopped briefly at Airey's Inlet at the Split Point lighthouse, of which I couldn't get a decent shot, but the inlet was quite picturesque although mid-morning lighting did not do a lot to enhance it.  I would like to give a brief thanks to the person in red who stood on the horizon and gave some scale to the shot.

Our first overnight stop was Lorne which had a beautiful beach not enhanced by the cold, wind, and overcast sky.  I almost thought I was in Northumberland.

It didn't seem to bother these two.  Oh carefree childhood!

The Great Ocean Road takes a big dogleg inland through the Otway National Park and with overcast skies we spotted little to stop for, no sign of wildlife and not enough time to spend exploring I took nothing of interest.  However by the time we reached the Twelve Apostles the sun had reappeared.  I find it amazing that among the scrum below, and it was worse at times, that I managed to get any shots.  Sadly the behaviour of some of my fellow tourists left something to be desired and for once the Brits and the Americans were not the problem, it was mostly the Chinese.  Younger Chinese people were fine and and often polite, it was the older generation who seemed impolite and surly.

The Apostles, of which there are only eleven left.  The one that went must have been Judas.

Just down the road was the Grotto which attracted far less attention, but was a pretty little place.