Friday, March 4, 2011

Melbourne - Great Ocean Road

My Mom, sister and I did the Great Ocean Road tour on Tuesday, March 1. The scenery is so beautiful and amazing that, again, I'm not sure that my pictures can even capture it. This tour was a very long day, we left the hotel at 7:30am and got back at 9:00 pm!!! We were worn out, but it was well worth it. We had only 8  others on the tour with us, so it was very, very easy to get to know them. One family from Connecticut, with a daughter studying here in Brisbane, a couple from Washington DC and a couple from Hong Kong. One of the best things about this trip was getting to know all of them. But the scenery definately took first place!!!
Surfing school in Lorne

The beginning of the Great Ocean Road

Monument to the workers who built the road
The road builders were the soldiers who fought in WW1. When they returned to Australia, they didn't have jobs, so the government had them work on building the Great Ocean Road.


Koalas!!!
Our tour guide, Tim, feeding the parrotts

At The Twelve Apostles. It was very windy!

In the rainforest

"London Bridge"

London Bridge again. We had a fabulous time seeing some amazing scenery on the southern coast of Australia.

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