Sunday, January 18, 2004
Great Ocean Road
Back in Melbourne, after spending a wonderful three days touring Victoria's, Great Ocean Road! Endless rolling blue waves crashing in to brilliant white on to miles of sandstone, gently carving out unique stacks, bridges and gorges for the past few million years has left the most beuatiful coastline I think I am ever lilkely to see.
The coastline here carries over 300 shipwrecks so I am told, and upon seeing it you can understand why. Even on the balmy summer day that I witnessed, the energy and power of the waves made it impossible not to contemplate how terifying it would be for the hundereds of people unlucky enough to have perished here.
On the second day I had my first ever flight in a helicopter, and soaring through clouds at 1000 feet in what felt like a flying volkswagen beetle, over the famous twelve apostles was both terifying and exhilirating at the same time. (photos soon) - Afterwards it was off to town for a Kangaroo Kebab, I kid you not! Kangaroo meat has the ability to stay in the pitta bread much better than lamb because it is a marsupial and is used to being in a pouch!!!
Allways good to know the pilot is a practical joker beforehand!
That night we camped in the Grampian Mountain range, under the stars beside a lake in Swag rolls, me inexplicably humming 'waltzing matilda' above the sound of Koalas, walabies, wombats and any other strange fury creature you can imagine. Morning was shattered by the sound of the Kukaburra, which if you havent heard is somewhat akin to the sound of a naughty chimpanzee, Myself taking an early morning dip in the lake, to the disbelief of most of the other group members was the perfect start to the final day which saw us checking out the ancient artwork of the Aboriginal peoples*,
tasting some of the wine at one of the local vineyards before heading back to Melborne for a well deserved beer, shower and a sleep.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
e
*Not wishing to offend an ancient tribe, but it looked a bit like Monkey out of the Sky Digital Adverts? ¶ 6:44 pm
The coastline here carries over 300 shipwrecks so I am told, and upon seeing it you can understand why. Even on the balmy summer day that I witnessed, the energy and power of the waves made it impossible not to contemplate how terifying it would be for the hundereds of people unlucky enough to have perished here.
On the second day I had my first ever flight in a helicopter, and soaring through clouds at 1000 feet in what felt like a flying volkswagen beetle, over the famous twelve apostles was both terifying and exhilirating at the same time. (photos soon) - Afterwards it was off to town for a Kangaroo Kebab, I kid you not! Kangaroo meat has the ability to stay in the pitta bread much better than lamb because it is a marsupial and is used to being in a pouch!!!
Allways good to know the pilot is a practical joker beforehand!
That night we camped in the Grampian Mountain range, under the stars beside a lake in Swag rolls, me inexplicably humming 'waltzing matilda' above the sound of Koalas, walabies, wombats and any other strange fury creature you can imagine. Morning was shattered by the sound of the Kukaburra, which if you havent heard is somewhat akin to the sound of a naughty chimpanzee, Myself taking an early morning dip in the lake, to the disbelief of most of the other group members was the perfect start to the final day which saw us checking out the ancient artwork of the Aboriginal peoples*,
tasting some of the wine at one of the local vineyards before heading back to Melborne for a well deserved beer, shower and a sleep.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
e
*Not wishing to offend an ancient tribe, but it looked a bit like Monkey out of the Sky Digital Adverts? ¶ 6:44 pm
