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I have had just the best time...I seem to start this way
all the time...
So where do I begin?...I was away on this trip for over six weeks so The
beginning of this story was a long time ago.
Early one morning I set out from Bendigo heading for the beginning of The
Great Ocean Road. I love mornings, watching the sun rise up through the
clouds...but there was no sun that morning and I had stayed up late the
nite before so I was a little tired. A little tired? I was so tired I
started of heading down the wrong highway in the wrong direction!
I finally woke up when I realised I was almost at Melbourne rather than
Geelong. I always like a good detour and this allowed me to take a
different route.
My first stop was Torquay at
the Surf Shops to get some stickers for the kombi and then on Bells beach.
The First two nights I stayed at my cousins beach house in Anglesea.
Below: At Anglesea there is a huge coal mine which is larger than
the town itself. from the top of the hill you could watch the large truck
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The Aireys Inlet Light House
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To Lorne -
The Great Ocean Road
At Lorne there was heaps to sea and do, but do is not what the
Kombi wanted to do. The Kombi didn't like the steep hills in Lorne and
konked out a couple of times halfway up. We eventually made it after
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Around Lorne there are
many walks through the
Angahook - Lorne State Forest.
The area is covered in steep forest covered ridges and luxuriant fern
gullies. Streams wander through the gullies plummeting over the
spectacular waterfalls on their way to the sea.
Eskrine Falls |
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It was the middle of the
day and in the high thirties when I ventured down this track from Eskrine
Falls. It was so cool under the ferns just the perfect place to escape the
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Not far out of
Lorne there is a Bush camping ground where you can camp without paying for
a permit the only catch was you had to carry all your camping needs in
about half a kilometre from the road.
I passed over this site the first night because I couldn't get my kombi in
there and camped further out in the forest.
The next afternoon however I noticed a car load of good looking girls
about to set up camp there, so I decided to have a change and crack out my
tent too.
It was a pleasant evening... until the thirty or so school kids hiked in
and set up camp.
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This site records the odyssey of Stuart
Taylor
and his Kombi Adventures, with Peter Oakenful
or whoever else wants to tag along.
We are based
in
Bendigo Victoria.
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