During our Melbourne time, we took a daytrip along the coast to the west of the city--an incredibly scenic drive known as The Great Ocean Road. Our first stop was probably the most dramatically beautiful: The Twelve Apostles, and Gibson beach in Port Campbell National Park.
That was the westernmost point of our drive, and from there we spent the rest of the day meandering our way back toward Melbourne, stopping along the way to see (not at all in this order; for some reason the pictures got all jumbled in uploading) cockatoos in Lorne...
...Bells Beach, famous for its fickle swells (two surfers had died there just the previous week), an annual (? I think) surfing competition held there, and for being (supposedly--it wasn't actually the location of filming) the beach at the end of the movie Point Break where Keanu Reeves finally tracks down Patrick Swayze to arrest him but ends up letting him go out into the deadly, towering waves of a hundred-year storm, knowing "he's not coming back." For some reason I got a huge kick out of this. And the beach was achingly beautiful in the sunset.
We also took a side road to Cape Otway, where we decided not to pay 20 to see the lighthouse, but did not regret the diversion, as instead we saw koalas!:
And kangaroos! (Outside of metropolitan areas, kangaroos seem as common as deer are in the States, so this was just the first of a multitude of kangaroo sightings.)
The fun never stops....
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