Great Ocean Road
Autor: Morena | Publicado: 2012-04-13T08:10:00-07:00




É isso aí pessoal, a pedidos, tentarei fazer meus posts em inglês daqui pra frente, ok?

Me perdoem se tiver algum erro, peço a compreensão de todos e colaboração para me corrigirem sempre que necessário, por favor!



Let's go!



Yesterday I went to a wonderful
place, really beautiful!

I made
the famous ride of the Great Ocean Road, the Twelve Apostles.



For sure
it’s the most beautiful thing that a saw in my entire life, believe me.

First, I
woke up at 5h00 AM to finish the organization the things that I had to take
with me and to arrive early in the tram stop – it isn’t a station, it’s just a
stop like bus stop in the middle of the road – because there aren’t buses in
this time yet, so I had to walk until the tram stop.



Can you imagine
the weather here at 5h00 AM? Cold isn’t it? Yes, it’s really, really, really
cold!







Then I
took the tram to go to the city meet the bus of the tour agency. I talked with
the driver all the way (rsrs) and he said too that my English is very good! I started
my day well after this, it’s always good to hear this!



Anyway, I
arrived in the city at 7h10 and waited for the bus until 7h25. Yeeees, very
cold!



The first
place that we went was Bells Beach. It’s one of Australia’s most famous surfing
destinations.












Then we
went to Memorial Arch, there are like a portal to Great Ocean Road. The entire
road, almost 250km, was constructed by returned soldiers, without any machines,
between 1919 and 1932. It’s the largest war memorial in the world, dedicated to
the victims of World War I. Impressive isn’t it?











Then we
went to Beach Walk, a beautiful place!













After
that we stopped in some places in the road to see the view and the beaches.


















Then we
went to Kennett River to see Koalas!!! And some wildlife, some people live in
this place in some kind of trailers. There we saw some birds too, I can’t
forget the animals!rs








Finally,
we went to Apollo Bay to have lunch! I was starving!

It was a
great restaurant, included in the price of the tour, and a ate fish and
chips!rs

Moreover,
Apollo Bay is a beautiful small village with a beautiful beach too.












After the
lunch we went to Otway's Rainforest. It’s a very old and nice temperate
rainforest with some of the tallest trees in the world.






And
finally the main attraction, the Twelve Apostles!

Guys, you
really must go to this place! It’s the most spectacular thing that I saw in my
entire life, I’m not kidding! There aren’t words to describe.












Then we
went to Loch Ard Gorge.

In 1878
the chip Loch Ard was coming from England to Melbourne. After almost three
months journey the ship struck in Muttonbird Island, there were 54 people on
board and just 2 people had survived. That’s why the name of de gorge is Loch Ard
Gorge.








In 2009 the
arch of a neighbour island collapsed, this island has since been officially
named Tom and Eva the two teenage survivors of the shipwreck. The last picture is an old one showing how the arch was before.





And the
last one was the London Bridge which doesn’t exist anymore because it was
collapsed in 1990, but you still can see part of it.









Now, some extra pictures of some things that I saw. I hope that you had enjoyed the trip with me!