And it is still spectacular...

Thursday, April 27

A cool morning, but a great day for a drive.  When in the car it would rain, and when we got out to have a walk and view, the sun would come out.  Levi finally spotted our first kangaroo in the wild, but there is some debate whether it was indeed a kangaroo, or if it was a wallaby.  Our first stop was at the Twelve Apostles.  Still a fantastic view after all these years.  We then moved onto the Loch Ard Gorge.  Named after the Loch Ard ship that sunk off the coast here in the 1870’s, and only had two survivors who washed up in this gorge.  Not sure how one would have survived being washed up here onto the rocks.  The drive was not as spectacular along this section, but the pitstops to see the ocean coast were far more dramatic.  The 30 meter cliffs were amazing, but that spectacular view is well hidden from the road.  Our final stop was the Bay of Islands.  We ended up for the night in Port Fairy, the end of the Great Ocean Road.

Loch Ard and London Bridge (which has fallen)

Bay of Islands