Greencaviar Travel

Part 5: Apollo Bay and the Great Otway National Park Our day was less exciting after exploring Port Campbell National Park and driving through the most scenic part of the Great Ocean Road.  We were still on the Great Ocean Road heading to Apollo Bay. Most drives on the Great Ocean Road start in Apollo Bay but we did the reverse. The drive was still pretty, but there were no service stations or restaurants along the stretch of the Great Ocean Road to break the monotony of the drive. I nodded on and off at the back of the car. Not that the drive was boring but having been on a road-trip for a while was a bit draining. We arrived in Apollo Bay around three-thirty in the afternoon. After checking into the Caravan Park, we immediately hit the grocery store and loaded up on beer, wine, meats, fruits and vegetables as if we had been deprived of food. Apollo Bay is famous for scallop pie. Lenny had to have her scallop pie, so we stopped at the bakery and had scallop pies. Two hours later, ...

 Part 4: The Great Ocean Road In as much as I enjoyed the beach, our walks and short hikes, and the landscape in the Mornington Peninsula, I couldn't have been more excited to finally get to the next part of our road-trip: Driving the Great Ocean Road . I have not heard of the Mornington Peninsula before this road-trip, but I heard so many great things about driving the Great Ocean Road from fellow bloggers and travelers that I added it on to my bucket list. The Great Ocean Road Drive is one of the most scenic drives in the world. It features the Port Campbell National Park, the home of the Twelve Apostles, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia if not the world.  The drive from Mornington Peninsula to our accommodation in Port Campbell National Park could have taken us four hours if we had followed the horseshoe-shape route on the map. But we did not drive directly to Port Campbell or stop in Melbourne. Instead, we took a little excursion to Dandenong, a su...