Australia!!
(I hope your expectations aren't too high after waiting so long. Enjoy!)
Chapter 1: The Great Ocean Road
My first night in Australia we stayed in Geelong and got a head start on driving The Great Ocean Road. Here we are, leaving Geelong and heading for the coast.
Ocean!!
Yay, I'm in Australia!!! Jens and I, our first stop to enjoy the view and take a quick pic.
The official start of the Great Ocean Road.
We stopped to walk along the beach.
Despite the warm weather the water was still COLD!!
On the road again.
Beautiful coastline. Reminds me a bit of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Literally looking in every tree along the road for Koalas.
Stopping again to enjoy the "beach" and document our travels.
KOALA!! I found him!
There he is! Just chillin' by the side of the road, eatin' some eucalyptus leaves. Koala fact: Koalas spend 75% of their day sleeping in the trees and are most active after sunset, so its pretty cool that we found one during the day.
Isn't Heuey cute? Yep, I named him.
He poses so nicely. And look at that little furry Koala bum!
It looks like Scotland! We had to stop and take this one because we both were reminded of dear old Scotland.
And, we're back in Australia.
The 12 Apostles. The ocean has eroded these individual rocks from the original coastline.
Proof that I was actually there :)
A hidden little beach we found.
This is not such a great picture I know (too bad the sun was shining too brightly :) ) but this was really cool. You can just barely make out a dark shape at the "top" of the pool of water and that is an underground channel going out to the ocean. When a big wave came through it made such a loud thundering!!
Its pretty cool what the ocean and the tides can do. I'm such a nerd.
The end of Chapter 1. :)
