We headed further west on our second day on Australia’s southern Great Ocean Road, after exploring the area near our nice motel – The Peterborough House. The nearby old, not fancy, gulf course is at the edge of the ocean with vegetation-filled hills that we wanted to climb and see the views on the other side. What a place to spend a couple of nights!

We headed west toward Warrnambool, a larger ocean town with so much to explore that we only touched the surface. We headed to the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village which is also their tourist center. Using their information we explored the town for a while and stopped by later as well.

February 8th: After a a great curry dinner at our hotel/motel and sleep we headed east to see the part of the Great Ocean Road we hadn’t seen (since we came in to it round the the halfway mark).

I was surprise that soon after we passed the 12 Apostles areas the road began to climb and the views were much different, but still lovely. This was in the Princetown area.

We continued on and pulled over at the first sign of the Otway National Park . It covers a large area and included small pockets such as this area called Melba Gully State Park. I haven’t mentioned our French “friend” that we saw a few times when watching the sunset in Peterborough and when seeing sites along the way. And there he was, the only other person in this little park area. Amazing to me.

We continued on around crazy curvy roads up and down mountains, stopping once in a while for photos or to let fast cars pass.

We finally made it to the Cape Otway National Park center and the Lighthouse. There is an excellent refurbished Telegraph Station with lots of good information including tours as well as the beautiful lighthouse (that can’t be climbed due to damage).

We continued on to Torquey, the official east end of the Great Ocean road and is a lovely town. More photos to come but it’s time to stop posting and get going down the road…