Driving Down The Great Ocean Road!!

Start of the Great Ocean Road

I have gotta admit I was really, really looking forward to driving down the Great Ocean Road!  Much of the road hugs the coast hugs the coastline which is called 'Shipwreck Coast' and you can see the Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean along it.  The road winds itself through rain forests, coastlines, beaches and cliffs of limestone and sandstone. 

Building of the Great Ocean Road was started in 1919 by approximately 3000 returning World War I servicemen as a war memorial to those who had been killed in the war.  It took until 1932 for the road to be completed and became the world's largest war memorial and in 1962 the Tourist Development Authority to be one of the world's great scenic road and driving along the road they most definitely got it right.

Curvy road!

I was once again happy to let Natalie do all the driving.  The road was filled with curves and turns, even more so than Tassie had been...at least it sure seemed that way to me.  The one thing that seemed to be missing was the winds though I'm pretty sure Natalie would disagree...at least the winds were of a calmer nature than Tassie.

We drove all the way down to Apollo Bay the first day before turning back around and returning to Lorne where we were going to be staying for the next several days.  It was such a lovely day with the sun shining brightly for most of the drive.  The only slight down points were a couple of spots where we drove through smoke from controlled bush fire burns past Lorne but I was glad that they were controlled burns and not wild fires.

Looking towards The Pier on
Loutit Bay in Lorne

After a lovely day driving along the Great Ocean Road we got settled in and Lorne and decided to go to the Lorne Hotel and sit out on the balcony where we a bit of a view of Loutit Bay...not too bad of an ending to a lovely day.

Until next time...wherever you are have a great day!!



If you would like to see more pictures of the first day's drive down The Great Ocean Road here is a link to that photo album on Picasa:  Play slideshow