The Great Ocean Road going through Otway National Park
This morning was stormy, windy and cold. We headed into the great Otway national park. We walked up to Marriners Lookout which had great views looking down over Apolloy Bay. We spotted a fox at the top of the hill looking at us, wondering what those two stupid people are up to on top of a hill in bad weather. Later we missed the turning for Marriners Falls (sorry Sue we missed it, but is was raining anyway).
Our next stop was Cape Otway Lightstation built in 1848. Just as we got to the top of the light house up the 78 steps the sun came out and showed us the breath taking views. Hannah said she could have stayed all day, just looking out to sea. We chatted to the man at the top of the light house, asked him loads of questions and found out he was the light house keeper. His great grandfather just clean the light house without any ropes or anything to stop him falling off.
Then we stopped at Johanna Beach, where the Rip Curl Pro comp. is held when Bells Beach is too small. It was raining so no surfers today. We decided to have lunch here before going into the forest, inland.
In the forest we saw Hopetown falls got a picture of it but didn't walk down to it. We saw the great Redwoods were the trees are like giants. Our next stop was a walk through the rain forest to Triplet Falls. It was sheltered from the rain with an eirey feel. The trees parted to show us a three tier waterfall. Got some fantastic photos of Hannah and I in front of the falls. Decided to miss out the Otway Fly Tree Top walk as it was late in the afternoon and it was raining again.
We tried to find "Wreak beach" in search of an anchor in the sands, but gave in as the road started to disappear.
It was starting to go dark and we decided to stop at "the Twele Apostles" centre. We walked out to the look out and watched the little penguins coming out of the sea for the night. The poor things.....the sea was so rough it kept taking them back out to sea as they were trying to get out. Some were just playing in the sea or waiting for there mates.
It was getting really cold so we drove it to town and ended up in a hostel dorm room for 6 people, but there was only the 2 of us in the room. It was cold so we got the duvets from the other beds to keep us warm. The town was so quiet, when we went out for a pizza and the pub closed at 8pm.