Now for the start of the iconic Great Ocean Road trip with our trusty 'steed', Ruby (naturally, cause she's red!). We left Adelaide in no time, stopping by at the supermarket to stock up on drinks/nibbles.
We soon learnt that the Great Ocean Road is the worlds biggest war memorial, hand built by returned WW1 soldiers in honour of their fallen comrades. The scenery is absolutely breath taking and it takes you up close and personal with the crashing waves of the Southern Ocean. A very fitting memorial, indeed.
Between Adelaide and Mount Gambier, we didn't see much apart from Larry the lobster who was gigantic. We stayed over night in Mt Gambier and indulged in what was possibly the best Thai food outside of Thailand.
On the second day of our mini road trip we saw the Blue Lake which apparently turns into a insane hue of blue in the summer but as it's winter all we saw was a stainless steel lake so were gone within 5 mins. We stopped off at Cape Bridgewater hoping to see the seals but didn't see any, however we did see some beautiful beaches. We had lunch in Port Fairy, a cute fishing village with charm. The afternoon was spent viewing the Bay of Islands (a group of islands), the Grotto (a beautiful rock pool), the London Bridge (the bridge fell down in 1990 leaving two tourists stranded on the worlds newest island revealing their affair - Imagine that!) and the Arch (which is exactly what it is, an Arch). We stayed overnight in a fabulous hostel in Port Campbell.
On the third day, we kickstarted the day by viewing the iconic Twelve Apostles (45m tall limestone stacks - captivating) but we could only see 11! We covered a long stretch to make it to the Kennet River for lunchtime, so we could eat our lunch while we spot Koalas (We had a koala spotting competition and Helen came up trumps spotting 4 while Nick only spotted 1......). (A couple of things you didn't know about Koalas, they sleep for 19 hours every day and are only 2cm long when born).
En route to St Kilda, Melbourne we stopped by at the world famous Bells Beach which hosts the annual Ripcurl Pro surf contest. Quite frankly we were disappointed with the size of the waves so left to do a little shopping in Torquay's surf outlets.