The Australian Chronicles

By Mary Ann Kerzel

The Final Day

Our last adventure before leaving for home began driving around in circles trying to find The Great Ocean Road, which runs along the southwestern coast of Australia. The Great Ocean Road is exactly that, a narrow, very long and very winding two-lane road! Not a single guardrail anywhere and at times very close to the edge! David didn’t mind the drive but then he was not on the side of the car that was going off the road on the cliff side! Very, very, very high cliffs! Okay I admit it; M-5 really is a super highway!

Having spent so much time trying to get out of town we didn’t have enough time to drive all the way to Fort Campbell and the natural sandstone formations (carved by wind and sea) called the Twelve Apostles so we settled for checking out Erskine Falls near Lorne. We walked all the way up to the fall. Then we went on to The Split Rock Lighthouse and Eagle Rock at Aireys Inlet. David likes to photograph lighthouses. Eagle Rock is a really huge rock formation out in the ocean near the lighthouse that resembles a huge bird’s nest.

Australia is a very interesting place to visit and I believe worth the trip. My one regret is that we had so little time and only just scratched the surface of a wondrous country. I highly recommend going if you have the chance and stay for 3 or 4 weeks.