Great Ocean Road

Isla, Kylie & Me just after our helicopter flight over the Apostles!

My favourite catalogue pose...the Great Ocean Road Sign!
Not sure what I was thinking!!

My group for the 2 day trip...Good bunch!
Koala sign where we saw them in the wild...not seen a sign like this before!

The fabulous 12 Apostles or is that 13?

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im falling......please rescue me!

The London Bridge in 2 pieces now!

12 Apostles view from the air!

In the Grotto!

This was a two day trip to travel from Melbourne heading towards Adelaide. This tour company was unique in the fact that he does the trip the opposite way to everyone else so we avoided lots of tourists which was great!

I met some great people on the trip, especially Kirsty & Isla, we had such a laugh! So will definately keep in touch girls and I will have to plan a trip to Cork on my return!

The first day we saw Koalas, Kangaroos and Emus in the wild which was pretty cool after seeing all of these animals in zoos it was a rare sighting!

Then driving down the Shipwreck Coast we saw lots of different bays/beaches where the coastline erodes to create different rock formations.

There was also some funny stories, for example The London Bridge (photo 8) collapsed in 1990 breaking into 2 pieces and it left a couple stranded on the rock face for 8 hours as it was too windy for a helicopter to rescue them. Anyway after being stuck there for so long, all the journalists turned up together with local people and when the couple finally got to land they wouldnt show their faces to the camera...it turned out they were both married and having an affair....doh...so they got caught on national TV! Serves them right is what I say!

Then onto to the 12 Apostles (photo 6 & 9). This used to be called the Sow & the Pigs but then powers that be changed the name, when they realised it became a real tourist attraction. The odd thing is that there isnt actually 12 rocks...depending on what you count its anywhere between 8 to 13 rocks..funny as eh!!

We watched the sunset over the Apostles and it was absolutely Brass Monkeys out there, so we equipped ourselves with lots of layers and a good bottle of red wine!! Once sunset appeared we watched the Penguin Parade coming out of the ocean to a safe spot for the night away from their predators. They were really small blue penguins and sooooo cute to watch!

Next day we returned to the Apostles and thankfully the weather was a lot nicer, so a few of us decided to have a flight in the helicopter to get the best view of the Apostles and the other landmarks of the Great Ocean Road. It was such good value for money and really glad I did it!
We went to a few secluded beaches and coves and explored some caves later on and then onto Bells Beach (annual surf contest is held here and also Point Break was filmed here too!)

Then finishing off at town called Torquay where Billabong & Ripcurl first started, we shopped at a few retail outlets...rude not to get a bargain eh!