Great Ocean Road - Australia

If you go to Melbourne for holiday, include "Great Ocean Road-Port Campbell" in the itinerary (assuming you and your party love natural beauties that mother earth provides).

Drive early, 9am or earlier from Melbourne airport heading to Port Campbell via the Great Ocean Road. We took Airport Tullamarine-Torquay-Lorne-Apollo Bay route to reach Port Campbell just before 6pm. That was about over 300km drive, mostly along coastal and park roads with some winding roads. So you cannot expect an average highway speed (90km/h) to reach Port Campbell.

Two nights at Port Campbell is more than enough. In fact one night sleep at Port Campbell on arrival day should suffice since you can sort of "rush" to cover all the main attraction spots in Port Campbell National Park the next day and sleep somewhere else according to your planned journey. But this is not advisable especially when you are the only driver.

Don't forget that you may not have enough sleep the night before since they serves you midnight hours meal, and again very early hour morning snack in the flight. Melbourne time (GMT+10) is ahead 2hrs from KL time (GMT+8), therefore "lose another 2hrs of sleep", and you need to be energetic to drive 300km plus journey for another 7/8 hours or so. Do mind also the amount of daylight you have, depending on which season your holiday falls in.

The journey offers you scenic coastal route from Melbourne to Port Campbell, i.e. the Great Ocean Road, with many attraction spots along the way for you to stop and explore for a while. Don't forget that you need to reach Port Campbell before it is late in the evening, in case you have already booked your accommodation.

Within Port Campbell National Park, do visit London Bridge, The Grotto, Bay of Martyrs, Bay of Islands, Loch Ard Gorge and 12 Apostles. Read more about the natural attractions HERE. Our motel receptionist told us that The Grotto is not to be missed.

Here are some pics from our lens.

To Port Cambell

Stop point, or "Landmark" of the Great Ocean Road. There is a "Great Ocean Road Gate", wooden overhead "gate" spanning across the road nearby.

Waterfall, in another national park, inner route along the way. We spotted quite a large wild kangaroo beside the road, but did not manage to stop and take a pic of it. They told us that we should see some koalas up on the trees along the road.

One of the view taken from a lookout point at the side of a winding coastal road.




At Port Campbell

(View from hilltop overlooking the Southern Ocean Motor Inn area)

Bay Of Islands

The Grotto

Loch Ard Gorge

London Bridge

 12 Apostles / The Razor

 

 

 

 

Port Campbell to St. Kilda, Melbourne

A lakeside park in Colacs. Aussies are gathering to celebrate Anzac Day.

Lake Colacs

Driving through Melbourne from Geelong, heading toward St. Kilda.

Somewhere near our Easystay Apartment at St. Kilda beach.

Melbourne City

(Federation Square)

(One of the grafitti street)

(one of the graffiti close-up)

(visual trick at Melbourne Museum)

(Melbourne Museum, where IMAX is also located)

(Victoria Market)