The Great Ocean Road
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Above: It was very beautiful riding my bike along the moorings at Port Fairy. There where many different boats of all shapes and sizes. It made me wonder if the kombi would float and if I could turn it into a sailing boat.

At the mouth of the river the was an old fort with a collection of old cannons from all over Australia and further out was this lighthouse. The light house used to be on an island separated from the mainland by a small waterway. A breakwater was built to give better access to the island and over time sand has built up in the waterway and filled it in. The light house is only about 2km from the town but before the breakwater was built the lighthouse keeper and his family would spend a month or more on the island without contact with the mainland.

In Portland there is an old tram that travels from one end of town and back again. you get a day ticket and can get on and off as you please. it stops a several different stop of interest along the way.

To the west of Portland is Cape Bridgewater. There is a seal colony but I was unable to walk that far because I had got out of bed the wrong side and pulled a muscle in my neck which was a real pain. but I did sea the fossilized trees. (below) The tree were once cover with sand and thus dead. but now wind has exposed them. The exterior of their trunks had become encrusted with limestone and the interior had rotted away leaving tall hollow columns.

Below: View of Cape Bridgewater

Near the South Australia / Victorian border is the Princess Margaret Rose Cave.
 

There were some amazing sites in the cave...including our hostess :-)

  Me in the cave

Having now worked my way along the Great Ocean Road I continued on to Adelaide via Mount Gambier.

I had just been to Mount Gambier not even a month before with Mum and Luke on a previous adventure

  Blue lake at Mt Gambier

Bordertown is the home of the white kangaroos. there was a whole paddock full of these guys.

I decided not to drive on the freeway through the Adelaide hills and to explore some of the smaller towns like Nairne, Hahndorf and Mt Marker on the way to the city

Below: View from the top of Mt barker in the Adelaide hills

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