Saturday, May 06, 2006

Great Ocean Road - Port Fairy

What can you expect after such a splendid day as yesterday? First of all the meeting at the treehouse with K.oala did not take place, apparantly he took the weekend off and went surfing, something which is really great to do along the southcoast, great waves, cold water however due to the proximity to the artic.

We started today at the lighthouse, amazing views like almost everywhere else along the road but every time it is slighly different. On the way back we took a dirt road towards blanket bay, an empty bay (at least for today) with magnificent rock formations. Whereas yesterday we basically stopped every 5 mins to take pics and admire the scenery today there were less lookouts since the road went more inland.

And inland there were activities as well. We took a treewalk, 45 metre above the ground along bridges in a rainforest. Some trees still rose above the platforms, even above the watch tower. After that we had to race toward the Twelve Apostels, probably along with Uluru (Ayers Rock) and the Sydney harbour one of the key images people have of Australia.

Amazing, we were there at sunset which made it even more spectacular. I hope the pics came out well!

Tomorrow we'll drive back over the freeway towards Melbourne where we quickly might go into the CBD and do some shopping (saw some great boots but the store was closed). After dropping Fiona off I have to drive to the airport and board the Qantas plane towards the nation's capital.

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