"The road was built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, and is the world's largest war memorial; dedicated to casualties of World War I. It is an important tourist attraction in the region, which winds through varying terrain alongside the coast, and provides access to several prominent landmarks; including nationally significant Twelve Apostles limestone stack formations."
The road wind around rugged cliffs, through lush rainforest and windswept beaches. I'd say the drive along the Great Ocean Road can be quite a challenge to inexperience drivers even experienced drivers need to be extra careful too. The views are great and definitely worth the drive. Started off as a bright sunny day and left St Kilda at around 9AM, but as the day went on it slowly became overcast and started pouring..
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| Our route of the day from St Kilda to our destination, Warrnambool. |
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| Probably the best (double) rainbow captured through my lens. |
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Stopped by at Lorne Pier to settle our hungry tummies. This Lorne Pier Seafood Restaurant we went turned out to be surprisingly good! AUD57 for our garlic bread, oysters, scallops, seafood pasta and tea. For the big portion and yummy food, I thought it's really worth it! The restaurant also served the best garlic bread I've ever had. No joke! It was really that good! But we were too hungry and gobbled down the bread before snapping a photo of it. Anyway, two extremely satisfied customers here! :)
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| Look at the gloomy sky! :( |
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| Very interesting blackboard menu of the restaurant. |
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| *DROOLS* |
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The Great Ocean Road is also the home of the famous The Twelve Apostles, a popular tourist attraction. The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park. Planned to arrive at the Twelve Apostles for the sunset but unfortunately, it was raining and we couldn't walk down to admire the beauty of the famous icon of the Great Ocean Road. What a pity!
"Created by constant erosion of the limestone cliffs of the mainland beginning 10-20 million years ago, the stormy Southern Ocean and blasting winds gradually eroded the softer limestone, forming caves in the cliffs. The caves eventually became arches and when they collapsed rock stacks up to 45 metres high were left isolated form the shore."
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| The wind and rain showing no mercy to us. |
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| Didn't get to see the Twelve Apostles but here's a photo of it from Google. |
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Warrnambool marks the end of the Great Ocean Road and it was also our destination. Checked in the (pre-booked on Booking.com) City Central Apartments that was hosted by an extremely friendly host. We even got a free upgrade from a Budget One-Bedroom Apartment (AUD80/ night) to an Executive One-Bedroom Apartment, also comes with complimentary WiFi and parking. Service was good, value for money, clean and spacious, basically no complaints about our stay there. Definitely recommend it!
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| Full set of kitchen equipment and cutleries. |
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| Separated laundry and bathroom. |
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| Looking cosy isn't it? |
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After being very happy with our apartment, we drove to the nearest supermarket to do our groceries shopping for dinner and next day's breakfast. First cooking session for our adventure!
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| Chef Young and our not very appetising and nice looking dinner. |
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Information you might be interested in:
Lorne Pier Seafood Restaurant
Lorne Pier
Lorne VIC 3232 Australia
Port Campbell National Park
Port Campbell National Park
Great Ocean Road
Port Campbell VIC 3269 Australia
Port Campbell VIC 3269 Australia
City Central Apartments
14 King Street
Warrnambool VIC 3280 Australia
Woolworths Warrnambool East
Corner Princes Hwy & Gateway Road
Warrnambool VIC 3280 Australia
Corner Princes Hwy & Gateway Road
Warrnambool VIC 3280 Australia
