Thursday, June 25, 2009

Australia Day 3

By right this was the 4th day we stayed in Melbourne but I marked Day 1 as the first morning we spent in Melbourne in my post, so the 4th day is Day 3. Today the weather did not look very good. The sky was grey and it drizzled a little when we were getting out from the house. We drove rental today too. Everyone had heavy breakfast again, thanks to my sister who woke up early to cook for us. Kevin and my sister prepared burgers and sandwiches the night before to bring out as lunch today.
Our plan was to drive along Great Ocean Road today. We stopped at this beach area which I forgot what's the name. There so many surfers on the day despite the bad weather. It was so cold that I don't understand how could they get into the water.





After a long drive we arrived at the starting point of the Great Ocean Road. Great Ocean Road was build by the three thousand Australian returned servicemen from First World War. These people survived the war and built this long road along bass strait.


My niece with her chuppa chups lollipop.


My mom and I


While driving along the road, we past through a forest of eucalypts trees. This is the tree that koalas love to hang to. We saw many people stopped their car and went down so we knew that there must be a lot koalas there. We took photo with the one nearest to the road.


After some scenic road drive we arrived to this magnificent place..



The twelve apostles!!!! It was really beautiful.





twelve apostles


Razor Back


London Bridge & Curtain Lace on the right
It is winter now in Australia so the day gets dark really quick. Sun sets at 5.15pm. We just managed to get here by time to check out the place last minute before the whole place became dark. I wish we can spend more time at this place because it was really very beautiful. I love it.

3 comments:

josze said...

hey hey. do you happen to know any nice cottage houses or inns alongside great ocean road for 1 night stay kind of thing?

pik lay said...

hmm we didnt stay there nor do my sister before.. I do see some inns along the way . there is small town from one length of road to another. You can probably online to do some research. :)

Where are you going to melbourne?

Are you tired yet of travelling? You are travelling so much.. enviessssssss

josze said...

my tickets are bought for melb in september around raya time. looking for some nice places to stay else just go back to melb city. i'm not tired of travelling but i'm gonna stop because...no money liao. haha.