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Grampians National Park

By tony On January 19, 2013 · Add Comment · In Grampians
The Grampians range forms the most western and southern point of the Great Dividing Range that runs near the eastern side of the continent all the way into north Queensland.  Called Gariwerd in the local aboriginal dialect, the Grampians is a mixture of [...]
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Halls Gap

By tony On January 19, 2013 · Add Comment · In Great Ocean Road, Halls Gap
This village in the Grampians is the main touring stopover and has a reasonable spread of overnight accommodation.  Named for the european settler who followed aboriginal tracks to this place while searching for a cattle grazing run in 1841.  Located within the Grampians National Park, Halls Gap has many walking tracks [...]
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Otways and ocean views

By tony On September 14, 2012 · Add Comment · In Beacon Point, Great Ocean Road
The road between Forrest and Apollo Bay follows a series of ridges that offer some outstanding views of rainforest, pastures along with ocean outlooks.  On the rainforest circuit most views will be on the way back to Apollo Bay in late afternoon.  The photo gallery carries the work of [...]
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Portland to Nelson

By tony On August 17, 2012 · Add Comment · In Great Ocean Road, Nelson
This is an interesting drive between Portland and Nelson with a mixture of pine plantations, short gravel road side excursions to lakes near the dunes, and some panoramic views over what seem like endless forests meeting white sand dunes and the sea.  And the wildlife surprises [...]
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Cape Bridgewater Seal Walk

By tony On May 21, 2012 · Add Comment · In Cape Bridgewater, Great Ocean Road
Cape Bridgewater Seal Walk starts from the kiosk/carpark and climbs south along the coastal cliffs for 2.5 kms.  The path is good and sections are fairly strenuous.  The reward is a viewing platform directly above the largest seal colony on the Australian mainland.  Allow about 2 hours for the round trip. There is an easier but [...]
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Cape Bridgewater Blowholes

By tony On May 21, 2012 · Add Comment · In Cape Bridgewater, Great Ocean Road
About 15 minutes drive from Portland on the western side of Cape Bridgewater is ‘The Blowholes” lookout and walk.  This spot provides panoramic ocean outlooks and a great perspective of the sweep of Discovery bay with its brilliant white sand dunes. The petrified forest is a walk of about 10 minutes [...]
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Lorne

By tony On March 2, 2012 · Add Comment · In Lorne
You should reach the beachside town of Lorne by mid afternoon. The town is on Louttit Bay, named after a sea captain who assisted a stricken ship in the area in 1841. Some years later the area was logged for timber, then cattle were introduced. The main street is named after the Mountjoy family who owned a cattle station running through the area.
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Fairhaven Beach

By tony On March 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Fairhaven, Great Ocean Road
Just west of Aireys Inlet the long sweep of Fairhaven Beach begins. The Surf Life Saving Club is at the eastern end of the beach where the surfing is at its best. Three kilometres on at the other end of the beach is the Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch, commemorating the construction of the road as a memorial to those that lost their lives during World War One
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Teddy’s Lookout

By tony On March 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Great Ocean Road, Lorne
Just on the outskirts of Lorne is Teddy’s Lookout. A walkway takes you to the viewing platform where you have breath taking coastal views of the surf breaking into the mouth of the Saint George River and rainforest covered gorge where the river winds its way through fern [...]
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Moonlight Head/Wreck Beach

By tony On December 9, 2011 · Add Comment · In Lavers Hill
About 16 kilometres south west from Lavers Hill look for a turn off onto Moonlight Head Road from The Great Ocean Road.
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