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Maits Rest forest also know as Jurassic Park where the ferns are twenty feet high
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The Twelve Apostles.JPG)
Great Ocean Road, Teddy's Lookout, Lorne.JPG)
Airey's Inlet, Great Ocean RoadOne of the best things about Apollo Bay is getting there. After negotiating Melbourne and Geelong take the Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay with its winding roads, hairpin beds and spectacular scenery, for all those not driving that is. If you have motion sickness this is not the road for you.
We stayed in a cottage on a hill overlooking Apollo Bay in a bucolic pastoral setting which offered wonderful sunrises and lots of piece and quiet, and a very dark road to negotiate after sundown. Apollo Bay is one street of shops, a tourist information centre, two petrol (gas) stations, and a couple of restaurants.
Apollo Bay is the best jumping off point to explore the surrounding rainforests, my sons kept referring to them as akin to Jurassic Park, known for their waterfalls and coastal scenery of great surf beaches, lighthouse guarded promontories and fascinating rocky formations the best known of which is the Twelve Apostles. A few years ago a misadventure befell one of the apostles, a rock formation with an arch. It seems that a TV company wanted to make a commercial by placing a car on top of the arch. Before filming started the arch and car crashed into the surf with surprise surprise the producer and a voluptuous actress inside (pants down). Strange stories can come out of Australia. Do you know the story of Harold Holt the Australian prime minister who disappeared, presumed drowned, off the Victorian coast not far from Apollo Bay?
We stayed in a cottage on a hill overlooking Apollo Bay in a bucolic pastoral setting which offered wonderful sunrises and lots of piece and quiet, and a very dark road to negotiate after sundown. Apollo Bay is one street of shops, a tourist information centre, two petrol (gas) stations, and a couple of restaurants.
Apollo Bay is the best jumping off point to explore the surrounding rainforests, my sons kept referring to them as akin to Jurassic Park, known for their waterfalls and coastal scenery of great surf beaches, lighthouse guarded promontories and fascinating rocky formations the best known of which is the Twelve Apostles. A few years ago a misadventure befell one of the apostles, a rock formation with an arch. It seems that a TV company wanted to make a commercial by placing a car on top of the arch. Before filming started the arch and car crashed into the surf with surprise surprise the producer and a voluptuous actress inside (pants down). Strange stories can come out of Australia. Do you know the story of Harold Holt the Australian prime minister who disappeared, presumed drowned, off the Victorian coast not far from Apollo Bay?
Apollo Bay looks awesome.
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