Great Oceans Road

On Tuesday, we started early (at least we planned to do so) with the trip from Phillip Island via Melbourne to Apollo Bay. After searching for a geocache and dropping Andis brother's geocoin, we went on to St. Kilda. This is the part of Melbourne with access to the beach. We then went on to Anglesea, where the famous Great Oceans Road starts. We were able to see kangaroos at the golf course there, sitting as close as 5 meters. We then went on to Lorne and drove on a very scenic part of the road (with a lot of curves and right next to the sea). This took us to Apollo Bay where we stayed for the night. At first we had our own house, meaning that nobody else was in the hostel that night. However, 3 guys showed up later on but it was still very comfortable.

On the next day we went on driving along the road and came to the Otways Nationalpark. We did a short rain forest walk there which was very nice. Afterwards we visited the famous lighthouse at Cape Otway, the first of its kind on Australian mainland. From there we were able to see the shipwreck coast, a place where many ships crashed into the huge walls of sandstone. On our way back to the road we saw some wild koalas sitting (or actually sleeping) on trees. The next stop was Campell Nationalpark, again very famous for its rocks in the sea called 12 Apostles. We went for a short walk on the beach and visited all other tourist sites in this park (Loch Arch, London Bridge). Shortly after dawn we started our trip back to Melbourne to catch our night-flight to Darwin in the tropical top end of Australia.