After our national park revelation we had to come up with an alternative for the Great Ocean Road. We had originally planned to stay at a few different places along the way. With a little research we decided on Princetown Reserve, which for the big price of $25 a night we had a lovely grass spot and beautiful hot showers. There was even a wildlife show every night.
After a long drive we hung around the camp ground for the afternoon and did some school work {the kids most favourite part of the day}. We decided we would head out for the whole day the following day, driving back to Warrnambol, taking in all of Port Campbell National Park along the way.
Our first stop was the 12 Apostles, which is very well known and busy
compared to when Justin & I had visited more than 10 years ago. We
picked the right time to go and there was thankfully only a handful of
people out already {and no big tour buses}.
Next we stopped in at Loch Ard Gorge and Thunder Cave.
A little further up the road we stopped at The Arch and also London Bridge, which has long fallen down {and reminds me of the old nursery rhyme everytime I think about it}.
We stopped at Cheese World on our way into town and brought way too many cheeses {and could have brought a heap more mind you}. Next stop was the visitors centre, where we grabbed some information on some other things to see. A few antique stores later we headed down to an amazing park for some fish & chips {it was well after 2pm by this stage you can just imagine Mr 12pm for lunch}.
One more antique market to checkout before we decided to trek back to Princetown for the night, a night which included homemade pizza with fresh mozeralla.
Saturday we headed out to explore the Otway Fly. A beautiful treetop walk set in the rainforest, surrounded by national park. The kids loved it, even Kyla who didn't enjoy the last treetop walk we did in WA and this one was by far higher!
Given how close we where to Triplet Falls we decided to stop in and look at these too. The kids handled the walk well, they loved seeing the Black Snails and the falls themselves looked amazing. I asked an older man to take a picture for us but when we got back up the top to the car, I realised that he hadn't actually pushed the button. Bugger it, as it would've been a nice picture with the falls in the background!
After our walk we went in search of another set of falls where we stopped to make lunch, no walking to the bottom or near them this time, just admiring them from the top.
Our next stop was the Apostle Cheese Factory, which I can say from experience makes amazing cheese. Then we headed to the Chocolate Factory for some sustenance in the form of hot chocolate {and of course other chocolate creations}
Home time came, along with the clouds, rain, fighting kangaroos, a rainbow, lovely sunset and of course falling asleep listening to the rain {we have seen a lot of rain so far in Victoria, during summer}.
