A Life in Motion: The Great Ocean Road

Summer holidays are coming to an end and the holiday travels are being crammed in! Our most recent trip was a 3 day trip down the Great Ocean Road. We began by driving Wednesday night to Geelong and staying in one of the church buildings over night before beginning our trip. Once we got onto the Great Ocean Road we stopped in many fun places.

Koala in the wild, NOT in a zoo.

In one of the first towns that we stopped at on our way down the road we were able to pull off into this camp grounds to stretch and come to find have some fun with the Australian wildlife. We saw a few koala's but this is one of my favorite photos I was able to get. It looks like he should have a text bubble above his head saying, "What you look'n at?!"

They are such cute big balls of fur, but I've been told that they can be quite aggressive and not as cute and cuddly as they look! O well, I still this they are adorable!

Bird in the wild taking a chill on my hat.

Also while we were at this same stop we were able to feed birds which were not afraid to hop up on your arm or on top of your hat. It was a lot of fun, and when they birds would hop up onto your arm it sure did tickle!

Camping

During our travels the young adults of the group were the lucky ones to sleep in the tents. The girls (6 of us) slept in the larger tent and the two boys slept in the little two man tent. On our first night when we were at Apollo Bay we had a rather windy storm come through. A couple of the girls were scared and hid in their sleeping bags while the rest of us were laughing hysterically. Thankfully both tents stayed up and the parents who slept in the cabins were not disturbed by the storm.

Rainforest

While we were at Apollo Bay we also went Boogie Boarding and a couple people tried surfing. I really enjoyed catching the waves with the boogie board and getting whipped back up onto the shore.

So we eventually ended up back in the car and off we went and one of our stops was a rainforest walk which was lovely and there were some HUGE trees that we took pictures with and stood IN and ON. It was very cool, isn't God's creation amazing?!

The Twelve Apostles

I think my favorite place that we stopped out of the entire trip was the Twelve Apostles. Before the main lookout we stopped and were able to climb down these stairs were two of the big rocks still stand and walk along the beach and take pictures. The ocean was beautiful and foamy as it washed ashore. So blue! It was just so amazing to see how these rock formations form and fall apart. There are only 8 of the original 12 rocks standing but you can see where possible new rocks will be.

Then a random fun stop that wasn't planned till we just stopped was at the London Bridge. The bit of rock that you now see is not connected to the main land broke off 15 January 1990. It is still so beautiful though!

At some point or another the holiday has to end. We ended by driving back to Geelong and staying with a family there and then staying for church with the Geelong RPC congregation. For lunch we were invited over by one of my favorite families the McEwen's! I know everyone from Southside RPC misses them so much and it was so nice to finally see their home and not just the pictures of them and their home. Then baby #4 is on the way and I can't wait to meet him/her! They are such a lovely family and I'll miss them when I go back to the states.

Here are a couple more photos from the trip: