We were down to the last two full days of our trip, which required moving into sprint mode. The Twelve Apostles are lcoated a ways west of Melbourne. The slow, scenic route along the Great Ocean Road takes 4+ hours. The quicker inland route still takes 3 hours. We wanted to get there, see some stuff along the way, and get back all in one day. We have a Morton family term for this activity: "hiking in the car".
We struck a deal with the boys that we would get up early, so we would actually have some time to explore along the way. Our plan was to take the Great Ocean Road there and then once our checklist was complete, make a beeline home along the inland route. We left at 5:51 am and coincidently returned to our driveway at 5:51 pm for an honest half day of touring. The day was windy, gray, and intermittently rainy - better to spend it in the car than in a tent or hunkered down in our Airbnb playing Wii.
Those tiny dots are boats and jet skis. Even tinier dots that you might not see are pro surfers. We stumbled into the Rip Curl pro surfing event at Bells Beach outside of Torquay. We watched for a few minutes from a distant vantage point without paying the $25/person entry - the equivalent of watching college football from Tightwad Hill on the Berkeley campus...
"Aye, the seas were angry"...
We found koalas galore in the wild with a hint from a tourist office where we might find them. Lucas and Walter were quite good at spotting them way up in the trees. See if you can find them...
An easier, but less satisfying method is to look for our fellow tourists pointing their cameras up into trees...
Twelve Apostles and Three Mortons...
Another couple of shots of the rock formations...
The Twelve Apostles, the best kept secret in Victoria...
We could have used a red-bellied black snake, not to do actual harm, but to hasten a return to the tour bus...
Margaret doing a pose preferred by Chinese tourists. Homage or mocking - you decide...
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