Includes:
- All Admissions
- World famous Penguin Parade
- Hand feed kangaroos, touch wombats
- Get close up Koala photos
- Visit local winery
- Free BBQ
- Free tea & coffee
Departs: Daily
11.00 a.m. Cnr Grey and Jackson Steets St Kilda.
11.15 a.m. St Kilda Road,directly OPPOSITE the Arts Centre spire.
Or pick up at your hostel or hotel by arrangement.
GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$65 One Day Tour
Torquay Bells
Beach Anglesea Airey's Inlet Otway Ranges Lorne
Apollo Bay Maits Rest Princetown Twelve Apostles Loch Ard Gorge
Departs: Daily
Pick up at your hostel or hotel
between 7 & 8 a.m.
(depending on where it is); or in St Kilda Road at
7.45 a.m. directly OPPOSITE the Arts Centre spire.
The Day on the road...
...beach, bushland, forest and farm,
and all the little nooks and crannies of this tumultuous, wild and still free
coast—with time to stop and get sand between your toes, and walk through the
sweet-scented eucalypt forests—until the massive pillars of the Twelve
Apostles standing from the ocean take your breath away...but we're ahead of
ourselves.
From Melbourne, it's straight down
the highway to
Geelong where the road turns coastward to join the Great Ocean Road at
Torquay with surf shops, sailboarding, a place to stay for a day
and a night to explore it fully? before making a detour from the Road to
the famous Bells Beach where
the world title surfing championships are staged...then back onto
the Great Ocean Road and
inland through wattle-blossom and heath country for a few kilometres before again the
ocean appears as you wind down into the little resort town of
Anglesea and kangaroos.
On along the Great Ocean Road behind
a long, curving beach toward Urquharts Bluff, the wildflowers in their season blooming on
the inland slopes. Through a strip of ironbark forest as the Road rises to enter the
little seaside town of
Airey’s Inlet with the Split Point lighthouse standing like a
great white chess piece above the magnificent orange cliffs above the Eagle's Nest Reef
(there's an unknown wreck lies at her feet for the intrepid SCUBA diver); but your bus
goes on (with a break to walk the magnificent sands of the Eastern View surf beach) to
where the Otway Ranges fall down to the Southern Ocean surf itself, and the
Road winds its way above the rocky shores—sometimes high above, sometimes at sea
level—to the resort town of
Lorne a famous watering place of the past that became genteel and somewhat
faded some 20 years ago, but now has returned to vibrancy (a good place to stay for 24
hours to get a real feel for coastal Australia).
From Lorne the Road winds through the
untamed forest above the equally untamed shore, until you stop at
Kennett River where you can buy lunch at the little general store. You will
see koalas; you may see an echidna (a relative of the platypus).
Back on the road after lunch and on
to Apollo Bay with its enclosed harbour for the local fishing
fleet, a town where the forest ends and the farms come right down to the sea.
At Maits Rest you will be
able to walk in the rain forest,
Then Princetown and
another stop before the
Twelve Apostles and
Loch
Ard Gorge
This is a day you will
remember—perhaps for the rest of your life—and if you come back to Australia
some day, chances are you’ll come with OTWAY DISCOVERY again; down along the Great
Ocean Road to re-live a wonderful experience.
Arrives: Melbourne
around 8.30 p.m
—but later if you’re all having such a good time you want to stay "just a
little longer" at some place along the way.
Stop overs can be arranged.
Leaving Melbourne after the trip?
Bring your gear and we will take you directly to your bus or train.
