Greeting people.. I see youre still tune into the riveting commentary on my Melbourne Holiday.

In today's episode, as promised, THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD!!

Yep... Im not sure if it's one of the natural wonders of the world, but it was sure wondrous to me. haha sounds lame.

Anyhow, I remember when it was back in Sec 3, last millenium, my Geog teacher, Mrs Elaine Lee, told us about the 12 Apostles when we were doing something about coastal processes.. Of course, being the visual , but not very studious ,person I am, I soon forgot about all the coastal processes, but the image of the 12 Apostles remained etched in my mind.

So for those who are still wondering what I'm talking about, the 12 Apostles is one of the great sights along the Great Ocean Road... Basically, I'm not going to bulls*** ( censored for the under 12 crowd who might be reading this) you.. the ride to the place is quite literally a pain in the @55 ...

at this point, I feel it neccessary to share some valuable intel with you people who are going to be travelling down to Melbourne and want to see the Great Ocean Road on a day trip.

DO NOT BUY YOUR TICKETS PREBOOKED FROM THE TOUR AGENCY!!!

Haha... Cali and I bought our ticket from Half Tix.. (the place is on Swanston in the City Hall)... Basically, we bought tickets for a 120 buck Day tour for 70 bucks.. "How?" I can hear you asking... Well, My dear Watson, the answer is simple.. This place basically sells whatever remainder tickets that the tour agency (in this case, Grey Line) cant sell by the day before. What this means is that they sell super cheap so that they can at least make some additional revenue from the tour. As opposed to having empty seats on the coach. Empty seat which incidentally, do not bring in extra renevue! Viva La Economics! Having said that, the only catch is that if you go in summer, there's a high chance they'll be booked solid.. So, not half priced tickets for you. Moral of the story: Be psycho. Go in winter, when its cold and gloomy.. Most of the time anyways.. The day I went on the tour it was gloriously sunny.=)

But I Digress

Yeah... back to what i was saying. The bus leaves at 0800 in the morning. Sounds pretty much ok to us while we're all happily sitting in Sunny Singapore doesnt it? But there, at 0800, its cold... And still not very bright. so it was a bit of a struggle to get there on time. But from 0800 after you get on the bus until about 1130, you see Nuh-Thin...well close to nothing... Theres Bell's Beach and it's insane winter surfers...



haha ...but other wise, honestly.. It's pretty much the driver humouring you with anecdotes about the road and its history. Sure, you get to see Lorne and at 1130, there lunch at Apollo Bay... but that's not what youve come for no? So just a warning to you people who get car sick. Bring bags.. the road's pretty windy.. not as in the wind blowing, but there are a lot of turns ... ok Rephrase.. it's a really windING road.. There was this one lady who was quite sick cos of the ride and we felt kinda bad for her... But our theory is that she was sick cos at every stop we made, her husband would light up a ciggy... or two.. i dunno, but if you asked me to breathe ciggy smoke at every stop, after having just gone through a super winding road, I also sure throw up...




For your viewing pleasure though, this is a picture of the view out of the window.. at the earlier part anyway, before we reached the winding ling ling long long road...

Anyhow, we stopped for lunch at Apollo Bay @ 1130.. It's a nice quaint little coastal town, but Cali did ask quite a relevant question. What do people who live here do? Honestly, there is only so much work at the row of shops and a small hotel... Points to ponder...



Yeah.. Anyways, this is a picture of the Apollo Bay Hotel.. as you can see, the sky's BEAUTIFUL.. at least for a winter's day it is...

Finally, after lunch, we head on toward that which we had come to see.. the 12 Apostles!



I dunno, but to me, the 12 Apostles was the protagonist in the story that is the Great Ocean Road.. The other features are all kinda nice, but the 12 Apostles is what people remember... It was nice to finally see with my own eyes, the picture that was printed in the geog textbook. Like i said in a previous post.. a picture can do a lot, but for somethings, a photo just cannot do it justice...




Haha... what you see in the picture is actually a sign that they put out near the viewing platforms... If you look at it, the top one has this person who's almost falling off a cliff... The whole pretext of the picture is quite serious, but the presentation, was quite funny... The 2nd picture, the one at the bottom, is a picture of the parent holding on to a kids hand.. but as if the graphic was not good enough, they have magnified the segment with the held hands... quite funny la..

Yep... I actually have more pics of the other smaller coastal features, lemme know if u wanna see them...=)

Otherwise, that's it for the Great Ocean Road.. Highly recommended people.. Despite the long journey and the winding road... It's definitely one of the things a person has to see before his time on earth is up...

Ok... So that was Day 3, Wednesday in Melbourne.. And it was day and it was night and it was good... (In case you all are wondering why i keep sayin this, go open Genesis and read the creation account..haha)

That's it for today! Tommorow, the Weribee Open Range Zoo! Stay Tuned!

Till next time, Cheers