.:The Great Ocean Road:.
Finally! My very first tour.I was t excited and looking forward to tour around.The Great Ocean Road, I think most of us should be well aquainted to this tourist attraction around the world.The Great Ocean Road is more of sight seeing tour rather than an activity tour.I had to wake at 5.50 to get ready and leave the house by 6.30 am.Fiona picked me and my housemate to Huntingdale train station where will board a train to the city to hop on the tour bus.After 25 minutes train ride Reagan, Yuki , Fiona , Vincent and myself found ourselves in Flinder Street Station.Soon, we go off the station and headed to Market Street.Boarding mid-size bus, the tour guide introduced himself as Steven.After waiting for 5 minutes or so Steven started his engine and picked up a few other people that is joining the tour and headed to the M1 highway which is similar to Federal Highway.
Have a closer look at the picture and ignore the BMW, you will see a bridge.That bridge is called the West Gate bridge that allows passage to people to and from the west side of Melbourne.Pass the brigde we were headed to a surfing town called Torquay (pronounced as tor-kee).It is the birthplace of Quiksilver and Rip Curl.The town is known because of a nearby beach which is one of the best surfer paradise in the world.
Along the way, to Torquay I encounter the beautiful scenenary and the farms.By the way the Great Ocean Roads actually starts around these few place that I have shown above.I dont know what are the names of these places but it just beautiful.
Bells Beach is the paradies that i am talking about.The reason why this place is a surfers paradise is because of the waves that sea creates.The waves are synchronized in one line which and the waves are strong which make it ideal for surfing.The beach is so beautiful and crystal clean even though thousands of people trespass this beach every summmer.According to the tour guide this place is sardine packed during summer.Surfers from all arounf the world come to this very place to surf each summer.I just love beaches like this,the crystal clear blue body of water and the sea breeze gushing on your face .Gosh!! It is marvelous !!
Next stop is just no more than 8 minutes away from Bells Beach.I dont really recall what was the place called but there the attraction of the place is the Lighthouse.Nothing really speactacular about the Lighthouse, just that it was used to film some kids show in the early 90's.
That big rock behind me is called Eagle Rock.I wonder why do they called it so.The reason why I am pondering over its name is because the rock does not look like an eagle in anyway and there are no eagles there at all.So why called it Eagle Rock? Funny!
The guy that is seated next to me is my dear housemate Reagan.Cool dude.Posing with that why it is called Eagle Rock.Next stop would be the arch memorial for those who built The Great Ocean Road.Nothing at this stop , just the arch and information board about the history of The Great Ocean Road.
The guys on this tour Vincent whom is Fiona's classmate from Singapore who is on holiday, myself and Reagan.The road from this arch is very winding one.It resembles Mt.Akina where drifter go around and drift.The corners are sharp which drifter are delighted to go for a spin.The Great Ocean Road would be a good place to drive if I have one of these sports cars.These sports cars are having a road trip which over took us.Soon we met the car in a nearby town.The model of the cars are Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 7 , Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 6, Nissan Skyline GTR 34 and a Mitsubishi FTO.
The journey after the arch was a horrible one cause of the constant motion of the car swaying left and right.Got me real dizzy.After 20 minutes we stop and saw something really cute .Guess what is it???
Koala.They are just so cute.These beings are just plain lazy buggers.They sleep for 20 hours a day and move for less than 20 minutes a day. These ones that I saw are wild one roaming freely in the rainforest.Noone of them are awake so I took shots of them sleeping.After paying the Koala a visit we headed to a town to have lunch.It is the place where I spotted the drifter's cars.Once lunch was done with we headed to the highlight of the whole tour.The 12 Apostles.
The 12 Apostle is just a name there are actually 15 Apostles.Again why name it Apostles.There is only one word describe this place, havenly.There is no doubt about it.The spot was quite cold as the sea winds were blowing at that time.In the last picture you can see a little island.That little island is actually the remains of an apostle.I came down due to erosion, last August.We spent the most time here breathing in the ocean breeze and took some photos.There were a lot of people so we had to wait our turn to take photos.
The next stop is a gorge called Loch Ard.The name came from a ship which was shipwreck a couple of miles in the shore.2 survivors were washed up by the waves to this shore.So they name this gorge after the ship as the survivors were washed up here.It is another pretty sight that you cannot get it any other part of the world.
The last stop is the London Bridge.This rock formation was used to be open to the public.Since 1990 the access has been closed due to the collapse of a section of the bridge.On the right picture, imagine there was a platform between the 2 rocks.Everything seems to collapse around here because of the very strong waves.Thats all folks for my tour to the great ocean road.
"The Tranqulity of Mother Nature Refreshes the Mind"
4 Comments:
*jealous*....the place looks awesome..i love it so much..i wish i could go there with u as well..:(
ooh.. sorry... Should have comment here.. Somehow I like to tag more than commenting..
Repeat : Wahh!! Very nice lah the pics... I like all the greens and the blue skies and the seas...
I shall go to those places in erm.. 2 years time??..
arrgHHHH.. i tot u were suppose to invite me? ishhh... celaka... i wanna go!!!!
I did but you were all busy!!!
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