She's small and black, but as you can see, she was cute and home for three days. While I did drive on the left side of the road, Shannon did most of the driving. I did the navigating--I can officially say most people would get lost if it weren't for my navigation skills.
Bells Beach, the first stop just before the Great Ocean Road officially begins. We had to stop to watch the surf and the crazy surfers off that point trying to catch a wave. Even on a cold day, it was beautiful.
A typical view from out the window. You can see the road winding around the mountain. That's only ONE of the many shots I took while Shannon drove. The coastline was amazing and continued to appear from behind all the turns and hills. I was constantly in awe of the beauty.
One moment beaches and suddenly, it looks like we're in England with the green rolling hills. It constantly oscillated between the two scenes. It rained a lot on and off too, but that didn't dampen our sense of adventure...
Along the GOR is Otway National Park known for waterfalls and rainforests. Sadly, we didn't see waterfalls, but we saw heaps of rainforests. This is along the Maits Rest Walk and it was certainly rainy and beautiful. We were among some extremely old beech trees, which was incredible.
The reason they call it the Limestone coast, the constant erosion going on makes it beautiful. Thank god for limestone, eh? And these would be the 12 Apostles at sunset. We just made them in time. The first of three. It beautiful to walk along the path, listening to the sound of the waves and suddenly......there they appear, as if out of thin air below you. And you suddenly witness the passage of time and the feeling of eternity all at once. One day will be gone, but more will appear as wind and the ocean work their magic.
Wow. That's all I really had to say.
The visitor centre after dark. It was cold by the time we got to the car and then we drove to a nearby beach town called Port Campbell. It was tiny with one main street. But, we found on cafe still open and had some pizza, wine and heaps of water. I was so thirsty and it was so wonderfully warm in there. We decided to sleep in the car, but had to dodge down a creepy side street to sleep because the cops were doing laps around the main road, and we felt we'd be in trouble for sure.
Even worse, I had to pee from all the water and wine, so we had to keep driving the beach house. Thankfully, they left the bathrooms unlocked by the foreshore. We made several trips that night.
We gave up sleep about 5:30am and decided to drive back for sunrise to the 12 Apostles. First we got lost, then we got there....and stared at the Southern Cross until the sun came up.
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