The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road twists and turns as it skirts along the Tasman Sea. It rides along ridges of bright green grazing fields dotted with sheep and cows. It dips down through dense eucalypt forests of the Otway Range. The bus drivers are ready with motion sickness bags for those with sensitive stomachs.
At times it has reminded me of traveling along the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia, and at other times, I’ve seen shades of the Malibu Coast in California.

The Twelve Apostles (only seven of them left now) are a pretty spectacular sight along this feral, rugged coastline. They are beautiful, slowly eroding limestone, like the Haystack Rock on the Oregon Coast or the Flowerpot Rocks in the Bay of Fundy.

The summer crowds of holidaymakers have not yet taken over, so life moves at a slower, quieter pace in these little villages than it does in the ‘Big Smoke”.