The next day we continued driving on some of the curviest portion of the GOR with another beautiful beach around every curve! We headed for Apollo Bay, another beautiful beachside town, which is also about the halfway point on the GOR. After we arrived, we went exploring and found some lovely rainforest hikes…
…and we also drove along a road leading to the Cape Otway Lightstation. This road was koala sighting heaven!! The first koala we sighted turned out to be a mama koala with a baby (“joey”) poking its head out of the mama’s pouch! A few minutes later, the joey had crawled out of the pouch and onto the mama’s back and was holding on while mama climbed! So cool!
As we proceeded along the road we saw LOTS of koalas relaxing and snoozing on forked branches high up on eucalyptus trees. At one point we when we were looking at several koalas high in trees, one large koala surprised us by climbing down from a tree and crossed the road right between Carol and me, practically walking on Carol’s toes!! It came so close we almost got scared! …then it climbed up another tree! We got our koala fix big time there!!
The last portion of the GOR had us driving through beautiful green hills and valleys…the way I imagine New Zealand looks…and more spectacular beaches and rock formations. The most famous of these rock formations is called the “Twelve Apostles” and it was gorgeous! We were lucky to enjoy these scenic views in mostly beautiful weather, but it sure was windy!!! Mother Nature showed some incredible handiwork creating these places!
It was a long day of driving by the time we arrived at our destination nearby the Melbourne airport to be ready for an early flight the next morning to Cairns (pronounced “cans”) the land of the Great Barrier Reef!! Can’t wait!!