The thing to remember is to keep to the main roads. But if you want to go through unfamiliar streets, get ready to get lost. Got on the wrong road twice.
So if you’re going to the Twelve Apostles from Melbourne through Geelong to the Great Ocean Road, get a map. Or just stick to the main roads.
The Great Ocean Road stretches 300 kilometres from Torquay south of Geelong to Warrnambool, nearly halfway to the South Australian border. Somewhere along the way are the Twelve Apostles.
- Near the start of the Great Southern Road between Torquay and Anglesea is one of Australia's most popular surfing beaches, Bells Beach, site of the international Rip Curl Pro surfing competition at Eastrtime.
You get really spectacular views
Only thing is: you can be driving for more than two hours and see not a hint of Peter nor Paul.
Your consolation is you’re driving through some of the most spectacular coastal sights in Australia, cliffs and crags and kilometres of sand and the blue waters of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. On your right are the forests and mountains of the Otway Ranges.
The seas along the coast are treacherous for ships and not for nothing is the stretch of land between Cape Otway and Port Fairy called the Shipwreck Coast. More than 80 vessels have met disaster in this area in only 40 years.
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