Road Trip!

One of the "must see" icons of Victoria is the 12 Apostles and Loch Ard
Gorge. On Monday, I went on a road trip with Sravan and some of his
friends from Adelaide to see these huge land formations. We left at
7.00am from Sravan's house and drove via CityLink through Geelong to
Steel's place. Steel goes to uni in Adelaide with the others, and has
just come home for the holidays. We had a quick tour around the farm,
which is really more of a hobby farm. It was fun to see how 'country
like' it could be just 15 mins out of Geelong.
After our quick pit stop at the farm, we proceeded onwards through
Torquay, and onto the Great Ocean Road. We followed the Great Ocean Road
to Lorne before stopping for lunch. We had packed a lunch of sandwiches
and soup. We pressed onwards to the Cape Otway lighthouse, and climbed
to the top of the lighthouse. Cape Otway is the point where the Bass
Straight ends and the Southern Ocean begins. We've got some photos, but
I will have to post them up later. From Cape Otway to the 12 Apostles,
Sravan drove. It gave me a much needed rest from driving, because it's a
long way to go.
We arrived at the 12 Apostles around 4pm, and spent an hour or two
looking at the formations and Loch Ard.
That area of the coast has quite a colorful past, and there were several
ships that sunk off the coast. One of these ships was the Loch Ard.
There were only two survivors from the Loch Ard, they had to take
shelter overnight in one of the caves, which I imagine would have been
quite scary!
After we saw the Apostles, we headed inland, stopping at Colac to get
some pizza for dinner. We headed home after that, using CityLink again.
We arrived back at Sravan's place around 10.30pm.
It was a long trip, but well worth the effort!