Melbourne Part 2 - The Great Ocean Road

Ha this is so long overdue. I finished up my internet quota too early last month so I can't update! It just refreshed like 3 days ago.

The great ocean road is a 243 km stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool.The road was constructed to provide work for returning soldiers and dedicated as a Memorial to those killed in the First World War.It is one of Australia's great scenic coastline drives. (quoted from wikipedia)

We joined the chinese tour for the cheaper price! We departed early in the morning and it takes about 3 to 4 hours to reach the destination. It's like going to KL to and fro in a day and the road is very winding. Being the usual me I fell asleep in the car and hence I don't feel anything. That day was very gloomy, windy, chilly, everything you can get to be the worst timing to go on a trip. But luckily the sun came up for a little while to cheer me up.

We stopped on a few places to see the rocks like the razorback, the 12 Apostles, London Arch, Loch Ard Gorge and probably more which I can't remember anymore. When we reached the destination, it was like wow... then took out our camera and snapped snapped, then after awhile I was too cold and don't even feel like taking out the camera and just keep my hands warm in my pocket. So I have a few photos only.

-the entrance to the Great Ocean Road-

- the 12 apostles, you can't exactly see all of them from the place I was standing, you have to take the helicopter to get the bird eye view then only you can start counting. A few of them have collapsed due to the constant sea erosion at their bases over the years, and you can see how gloomy the day was, I can't even get a nice photo of the 12 Apostles-

-the razorback-

-I dont remember........... -

-london bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down..... the london arch. That two thing was originally attached, we were told that when it collapsed there was a couple being seperated with the girl on the london arch and the guy on the land. I just wiki it and apparently it has nothing to do with the song.-

-This is the Loch Arch Gorge, this is not how it originally looked like, apparently it collapsed some years ago too...

-This is the before and after photo I got from the internet, click here-

So people, if you intend to visit the Great Ocean Road, you better hurry or there will be not much left for you to see in the future anymore. The rate of erosion at their base is approximately 2cm per year.

That's the end of my Melbourne trip post, next up will be TASMANIA!!