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January 19th 2009 - Port Fairy to Port Campbell

Before leaving Port Fairy we decided that we should probably do something that we hadn't done much of since arriving in Australia...spend some time on the beach. The beach in Port Fairy was beautiful and full of family vacationers. It was nice to soak up the sun for a few hours and the fact that we were constantly dodging Cricket balls that were flying our way only made it more exciting. I was able to get a good start on a book called In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, an American travel writer whose accounts of travel through Australia manage not only to be saturated with a plethora of information but quite sarcastic and hilarious at the same time (I have just finished reading it, thanks Dan and Robyn!).

We left Port Fairy and had lunch in Warnambool not to far from our starting point. I had never been so excited to finish eating lunch as I knew what laid before us. It was the beginning (or the end I suppose which was you are travelling) of the Great Ocean Road. What I didn't realize going into the drive was how the GOR was split up. There is essentially two sections of the drive; the first being near the ocean but not directly beside it and including tons of rest stops and view points to take it in and the second where you are driving literally along a mountain side where a sudden jerk of the steering wheel could send you plunging into the ocean below. Today we were doing the first.

As you can see, the Great Ocean Road is absolutely breathtaking, although I still feel obliged to reiterate that the pictures don't quite do it justice. Now I am not a fan of the many "Things to see before you die" lists that have made there way into alot of nature based publications, but that being said this would undeniably make that list. I actually think it should be mandatory for everyone to drive the GOR at some point in their life. It is a wondrous sight and one of the most beautiful things my eyes will likely ever see.

After arriving in Port Campbell we set up shop at the town's only caravan park. It was situated metres away from a great beach tucked into a small little bay. Great day, goodnight.

A few hundred metres from our digs in Port Campbell