We took a great tour out of Geelong to see the famous Twelve Apostles – a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell National Park in Victoria. While it was a very long day (11 hours), it was a day well spent. We drove along the Great Ocean Road and stopped at some beautiful beaches, saw some Koalas in the wild along the highway, had a wonderful lunch in Apollo Bay, and arrived at the Twelve Apostles around midafternoon. They are beautiful limestone stacks of which there are seven, not 12. We learned that there actually weren’t 12 when they were named – evidently, that was a marketing ploy, LOL! There were nine at the beginning of the 21st century; one collapsed in 2005, and another in 2009, leaving seven. Of those, more will wash away and others will form, along with arches and bridges, with the crashing of the rough waves along the coast.
We then stopped at Loch
Ard Gorge along Shipwreck
Coast, the site of the most famous shipwreck along this 130
km stretch of coastline that has been the final resting place of around 700
ships. The Loch Ard ship ran aground crashing into Mutton Bird Island in 1878
when traveling from England to Melbourne, killing 52 of the 54 people on board.
The limestone cliffs were gorgeous, and one could easily see how dangerous the
rough seas along the coastline were for ships.
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