The Great Ocean Road in southern Australia is one of the most beautiful coastal roads. It extends west of Melbourne up to Adelaide, a stretch of over 1000 km. We had two days, not enough to go all the way, so we decided to do a small part of it, from Melbourne up to Port Campbell to see the main attractions: the sand stone cliff coast with the formation called "Twelve Apostles" and many other attractive natural cliff formations. It was our third "cliff visit" this year - after the Dover cliffs on the Channel and the chalk cliffs on Rügen on the Baltic Sea in summer, these were the most dramatic.
At Gibson steps one can climb down to the beach via 88 steps in the sheer cliff wall.
Today, there are only eight apostles left due to erosion. Not so long ago, there used to be eighteen - so no one knows, why these formations are called "twelve apostles" . Possibly - as the helicopter pilot claimed, when we took a short ride to see the coast from above - to attract visitors with a catching name ?
Blues and Greens ..
seagulls on the cliffs
"London Bridge"
The connecting piece collapsed in 1990, when a couple was on the arch. No one was hurt, but after their rescue it turned out that they were not supposed to be there together. ...
A long exposure with an ND filter
Same here at "Loch Ard Gorge" ...
... the waves came a little higher and a little faster than anticipated and I got thoroughly wet.
A wedge-tailed eagle patrolling overhead
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