Showing posts with label VIC: Walks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VIC: Walks. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Tower Hill

Not far from Warrnambool in Victoria is a volcano after which Warrnambool is named. Ironically, that volcano is now called tower hill.

The hill has a tower, but more interestingly, a nature reserve where you can see some of Australia's wildlife, in today's case, Wallabies and Emus.

I completed two of the walks, the Peak walk, which is painfully steep but offers excellent views to the ocean, and the lava tongue walk. Both are perportedly half an hour long however I completed them in around half that time.




Monday, May 16, 2011

Wreck Beach

A bit to the south of the Twelve Apostles lies wreck beach - a small portion of the Shipwreck Coast. At the end of a small gravel road (the sort they tell you NOT to drive your rental car down, but you do anyway), is a walk down a bluff, and over a period of two bays you find two shipwrecks - the Marie Gabrielle and the Fiji.

Don't come at high tide though - you might get traptured - and that's not good. There is a reason they called this the shipwreck coast... in particular because so many drowned being trapped at the bottom of a cliff.

Shipwreck Bay - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Marie Gabrielle anchor - Shipwreck Bay - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Marie Gabrielle wreckage - Shipwreck Bay - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Fiji anchor - Shipwreck Bay - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Shipwreck Bay - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road is one of the must-do drives in Victoria - and when I drove it last year, I arrived at the Twelve Apostles just as the sun was setting - perfect timing! The walk out to the lookout takes around 10 minutes, so isn't really much of a walk at all, but the views are very good by day or nightfall.

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 17 Aug 2010

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 17 Aug 2010

And by daytime...

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010

Twelve Apostles - Great Ocean Road, VIC - 18 Aug 2010