From Cape Otway to the Twelve Apostles, you travel on the hills just inland but with regular glimpses of Bass Strait.  This is known as the ‘Shipwreck Coast’ due to the numbers of unfortunate tall ships dashed upon the reefs and shoals in this remote and exposed stretch of coast.  The tall cliffs would not have given many a sailor a chance of finding dry land should they have survived the swim.  Today there are a few places where the traveller can trek down the cliffs to the reefs and even see the ribs of some old wrecks.

Over the next 50kms of the Great Ocean Road, you pass through Princetown and onto the star event; The Twelve Apostles.  Needless to say they are fantastic and the scale in real life does not do justice in photographs.  Bracing ourselves against the gale force southerlies, we posed for a few photographs.  We stopped in Port Campbell for lunch which was a lovely town with a narrow harbour to shelter the weary fisherman (and also tourists like us on the wild and windy days!)

Leaving Port Campbell we drove past London Bridge, this in my opinion is a pretty average sight now the bridge has fallen leaving just a big stack.  However, last but not least, the Bay of Islands where fascinating.  I hadn’t been expecting to see these stumpy and scattered rock formations as I’d read nothing about them.  The islands and stacks are fascinating, as they appear to ‘float’ in shallow water of a bay as you drive along at sea level, giving you a different perspective to that of the Apostles.  Definitely make time to stop here. 

To be blunt, this was the end of the Great Ocean Road for us, and as such we sped through the next 50kms of wind and showers with nothing really warranting a “photo-stop”.  We drove through Warrnambool and spent a wonderfully peaceful night in a cabin at Port Fairy, a former whaling port and went through our photographs and talked about what a great drive we had experienced.

You can see why The Great Ocean Road is one of the great wonders of the world and why Australia is so proud of its creation and dedication to its fallen servicemen of the World War II.