The day started out beautifully, blue sky and sunshine, we headed off together in the Xtrail to drive the rest of the Great Ocean Road which ends at Alansford, then picking up the Princes Hwy to Warrnambool and return, stopping off when ever along the way. This way we didn't have to drag the caravans along and forever try to look for large parking bays.
We set off around 11am and arrived back at 5pm.
Oh my god!!!!! my first sight of the Apostles.....breath taking!!!!!
To see them with your own eyes, certainly has the wow!!! factor
The place was alive with tourists and I mean that literately, so many cultures and languages in one place, a league of nations here, there and everywhere to see this desolate, isolated part of Aus.
I think that darned long weekend caught up with us.....
I heard a family group count 9 Apostles, this one looks a lot like Rapunzel's castle "Rapunzel Rapunzel let down you golden hair"
The London Bridge, Slingshot's family member had crossed the bridge only a few weeks before the middle part fell away into the ocean.
The Arch, spectacularly beautiful watching the water cascade back into the sea over the lower ledges. Looked like many little water falls.
I think this is Port Campbell, a beautiful spot for a southern holiday. The next town along is Peterborough and then Warrnambool, that turned out to be an unexpectedly large town, I was really surprised by it. And being lost there for the most part, but delighted to find cheap petrol at $1.47
It was a picture perfect day and we could not want for a better experience. Kicked the feet up with a cuppa in hand when we arrived home, it had turned out to be a hot day and we still had our plan to return to the Apostles, only 6ks up the road, for sunset photos at 7.30.
I took 123 photos of the sunset, jostling for a position and spreading my elbows for space, just to delete the majority of them, well that is; when I learn to change Raw to Jpeg, for some reason I cant view photos in normal screen just now.
Tomorrow we are packing up after a leisurely morning and heading out on Princetown Road toward Ballarat.
