This area is part of a large national park call Cape Ottoway covering a couple of hundred square miles. We drove for an hour inland to a walk way through the tree tops. This is a natural rain forest with the canopy 80 metres above the forest floor. The walkway takes you at the canopy level and then you can walk on the forest floor amongst the ferns and rotting trees in the cool around the streams. After lunch we went to the Cape Ottoway lighthouse. The light can be seen 30 miles out to sea. The Coast is littered with wrecks, mostly from the late 1700 and 1800s. Having braved the passage from Britain several ships were even celebrating their imminent arrival when they were dashed on the rocks. On the side of the road we saw cars all stopped and discovered everybody was looking at the koalas in the trees. It is the first time we have ever seen them wild. There were mothers and babies who because they do not move fast make good photos. We spent a second night at Apollo Bay enjoying an excellent motel and pleasant little town.
Apollo Bay was the start of two annoyances, flies and more tourists! The flies continually buzz around during the day and you find hat and clothes covered in them. Corks would be a good idea. From Apollo Bay to Port Campbell is the main part of the road and there are coaches as well as cars. On the earlier parts of the road coaches are not allowed. The coaches are mostly full of Japanese and Chinese who see to spend their entire time taking selfies at the best photo spots. We end up limbo dancing round them to avoid accidentally being in hundreds of their pictures.