Great Ocean Road – Küste und Wildlife

The Great Ocean Road, which runs 243 km through the state of Victoria, is undoubtedly the most beautiful coast line in the world and thus a mandatory item on my trip around the world!

With the spectacular limestone formations, the surfer beaches and the diverse and unique animal life, for me it is the top destination in Australia per se.

The B100, which is extending from Allansford for Torquay each year of around 7 million tourists visited rising. Although we got in late autumn some dark clouds to face, we could largely avoid the large crowds of tourists.

From the Grampians, we started our route on the Tower Hill Reserve, a collapsed crater of a volcanic eruption that took place 35,000 years ago. The reserve is one of the few places in Australia where koalas, kangaroos and emus can be seen together in the wild.

After an overnight stay in Port Campbell, the extraordinary limestone formations of the Great Ocean Road was the next highlight on our road trip.

The interesting formations are thereby able that the lower layers of limestone are softer than the top and are thus flushed from the sea water.

Examples include "The Grotto", "Tower Bridge", the connection path is already caved to the mainland, the beach of "The Loch Ard Gorge" and "The Blowhole".

The best we found the Evening at the Razorback, the last rays of sun illuminated the rocks and the contrast with the dark blue sea was just gigantic.

Last but not least, then stood still, the "Twelve Apostles" in the program, so in the marine free-standing limestone rock from which it never really was 12 in number and some are more already collapsed. It will continue to need thousands of years to the sea creates more apostles.

Then it was once again from experiencing the native animals up close. The Great Ocean Road Wildlife Park you can right up close on a huge site.

Then, from the Cape Otway changes the scenery, beautiful rain forests instead of bushes and the Great Ocean Road goes along the sea only the animal inhabitants do not change!

Here are a few more details of my favorite animals, the koala: You spend 20 hours a day sleeping to save energy and feed off of 70 of more than 500 species of eucalyptus.

Since the eucalyptus leaves contain toxins that are carefully selected with a lower concentration. Nevertheless, the koalas often act like drunk and our friend Einstein had big problems so here estimate the distance to the leaves.

Along the Great Ocean Road the fluffy fellows are regularly on the trees, a particularly good place to see what is close to the Kennett River, where there is also colorful birds and the national bird of Australia, the laughing Hans - Kookaburra romp.

At long last went further on where the Sulphur-crested Cockatoos Lorne made themselves comfortable on the beach and then to the legendary Bells Beach where is held every year the world's most famous surfing competition.

As always, the time was too short and it would have to discover where on our fantastic road trip on the beautiful coast road in the world even more!