Great Ocean Road

Day One

Kym drove me to the Railway station. There I waited for the “Groovy Grape” bus. The bus was full to the last seat. We cruised through the Adelaide Hills towards a mid morning stop at Keith Bakery. We had lunch in the Grampians National Park. There we took a hike to the bottom of MacKenzie Falls. Over night we stood in the Grampians National Park, where we saw some wild Kangaroos and Willable. The weather was very mild, about 20 degrees, cloudy and sometimes with a little bit rain. We drove about 500km this day.

Day Two

We started with a hike to the Grampians. This is a small hill with a great canyon and a wonderful nature. The landscape from the was absolutely breathtaking. After Lunch, we drove to south to the Great Ocean Road. Stops were the Bay of Martyrs, the London Bridge and Loch Ard Gorge. This all are beautiful stone formations in the sea. For the night we stopped at Port Campbell in a beach home. The weather didn’t like us these days. I needed my raincoat and the jacket!!! But for the sunset at the twelve apostles was the ambience perfect! The rain did made it very special. (See the pictures in the album!!!) Back in the beach house we maid a fire in the fireplace to heat us and drunk some beers to cool us!

Day Three

This day started relaxed with a second walk to the twelve apostles to see them in the morning light. I took a helicopter flight around them. That’s a beautiful view from the sky! I’m thinking about to become a pilot… J After an other short drive, we visited the rainforest in the Otway National Park. There are huge trees! Up to 80meters high, 5 meters diameter and up to 400 years old! We did some more stops to watch some bays or beaches but there was nothing more special… We drove through Geelong, which is a great surfers paradise. We had there a stop for shopping. We arrived about 6-7 p.m. in Melbourne and the driver brought us to the different hostels.

I checked in the YHA, prepared my bad and went out to meet some people from the group to celebrate our Australian Christmas!

Today morning, I took the train to Olly’s house. He lives in a suburb over an hour from the center. The house is beautiful! I can stay here for some days. We will go to the ConFest on the 27^th and should be back on the 3^rd of January 2008!!!

cu next year!

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!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

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