Sunday we did a road trip to Port MacDonnell. We didn't really take much notice originally, but the coast was only a 30 minute drive away.   What difference in the weather on the coast.   It was beautiful and sunny with clear blue skies.   The beach was littered with incredible chunks of limestone in all sorts of amazing shapes having been hewn by surf and wind over the years.   A fossicker's delight. And that is me!We drove out on the sea wall...

Thursday was still bleak and cold. Best to do touristy stuff that is more indoors and driving, so off to the Lady Nelson Visitor Centre.   Not only the information centre but for a small fee you can wander through their interactive displays from the time the coast was born, through to the early settlers, the impact on local Aborigine plus a full scale of the (small) Lady Nelson brig which brought Lt Grant to this part of the world and when he first sighted an...

Farewell to a very comfy park and the lovely seaport village of Port Campbell. It is time to head for South Australia and leave this fantastic Victorian Ocean Road behind us. Thanks for awesome memories!A bigger drive today, although only 250 km it took us around 4 hours to get to Mt Gambier.   We passed into South Australia from Victoria and missed it, but then there was the sign!   Welcome to the Limestone Coast and limestone it sure as hell is.   Some...

Overnight at Port Campbell, on the Gt Ocean Road, and we wake to a most glorious day. Better to do the next part of the GOR in fantastic conditions and come back to camp overnight.   Certainly this turned out to be the best decision.We headed west in the Port Campbell National Park and took in the sights of the Loch Ard Gorge.   This was where the clipper Loch Ard ran aground in 1878. Only 2 souls of 54 survived.   A 15 year old ship's apprentice was...

On to the Arch and London Bridge. What an incredible sight! Words (almost) fail me to see such amazing works of Nature’s Art.   Before 1990 this was a double span natural bridge that connected the arch of land to the mainland. Disaster struck when the span close to shore collapsed into the ocean and, incredibly, left two tourists isolated for several hours before being rescued by helicopter.   What are the chances of being right there when it happene...