Chatby Lane Boutique Hotel was the nicest place to stay.
They even delivered breakfast to our room as part of the cost! We had a lovely
view of the ocean too.
Port Campbell is our next destination. The road quickly changes from sea shore to
rock cliff and up, up, up we go to a dizzying height. It must have been difficult for the miners of
the 1917’s to dig the road along such a steep cliff.
Our first big stop is at Mount Defiance Lookout where we
take a few good pictures of the shore.
Then we are off to Boggaley Creek where we take a few steps from the car
park down to the sea. The shore is very
rugged, yet molten looking.
We splurge for sandwiches at Apollo Bay, they were
excellent. All along the main street,
between the ocean and the main street are beautiful carvings.
Our next stop is Cape Otway lighthouse. As we drive into the lighthouse we see all
kinds of cars pulled off the road. There
in the trees are lots of Koala bears. We
saw over a dozen and some with babies! They were low enough in the trees to
easily see them. What a great stop.
Next we take the hike to the lighthouse and Alan encourages
me to go up it. It was a little
challenging as it was very tall. Once at the top the view was breathtaking.
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| Baby with mum watching. |
Back on the road we stop at the same spot to take more
pictures of the Koalas…..very neat.
At the stop closest to Port Campbell we stop at the beach
walk to see the beginning of the 12 Appostles. These are the famous Australian rocks on the
drive. The shore has rugged cliffs and there is a narrow stairway downs the
side of the cliff to the shoreline hundreds of feet below. We take the trek down and up. What a beautiful
spot, luckily the tide was out so we could walk past the first point. The sun made it difficult to take pictures as
it was so bright.
Dinner in Port Campbell was at Nico’s Restaurant. We had a
home-made gluten free crust on our pizza! Quite delicious!!
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| GF Pizza |
Tomorrow we are going back to have another look at the twelve Apostles and take in all the other points of interest.
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