Apollo Bay and the Otway National Park

To-day we left our vans overlooking Apollo Bay to explore the area.

We turned off the Great Ocean Road onto the Cape Otway road to view the lighthouse but on the way we saw a man up a tree - why ?? He was photographing a koala with its baby - so we stopped and saw more koalas than we have ever seen - they were quite active, grabbing for leaves and actually watching us - people after us saw them walking across the road! It was quite special until the man up the tree tried to take Wayne's car (their car was the same colour - he went to the wrong one!)

We then continued to Cape Otway to view the lighthouse cottages, the Telegraph Station, the World War 2 bunker, radar station and then to the top of the lighthouse. Our walk included the aboriginal cultural display.

We then re-joined the Great Ocean Road through Glenaire, Lavers Hill and into the National Park and rainforest. Our first stop was at the Triplet Falls - this involved a loop walk through a magnificent rainforest - beautiful ferns, mountain ash hundreds of years old which were enormous trees reaching tens of metres above us. We then came upon the Triplet Falls and they were spectacular.

The Hopetoun Falls were next on the list and here we met three Dutch fellows out here for twelve months - we gave them a map.

 

We continued on Binns Road back to the GOR to Apollo Bay for a visit to the Marina, Fish shop, beach and then some shopping. (Wayne forced me to buy a Magnum!)
Back home for happy hour and Wayne cooking a lamb roast - please do not worry about us, we are fine!