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Tag Archives: Great Ocean Road

We’re not in Kansas anymore.

12 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Ardys in nature, photography, Travel

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Australia, Great Ocean Road, photography, Travel

We arrived home nearly a week ago already.  Where does the time go? Our most recent trip was right here in Australia, my favourite place to travel.  This time we were being tour guides to friends who came here for the first time.  Aside from seeing a bit of the country, they wanted to see the inside of as many wineries as possible.  Oh damn.  Nasty job but someone had to do it. (I am preparing a separate post on the food and wine portion of the trip, if you can stand it!)

Wysteria at Padthaway Estate

Wysteria at Padthaway Estate

Relating to you a blow by blow description seemed boring to me to write and probably for you to read, so having done my usual copious number of photos, I thought I’d just make this a mostly photographic representation of the trip which was 2500 kilometres long, starting from Adelaide. We flew from Alice to Adelaide, another 1500 k (1000 miles).  We drove a big loop from Adelaide southeast to Padthaway and Coonawarra wine growing regions, through the Grampian Mountains, along the Great Ocean Road from Warrnambool to Melbourne, where our visitors departed, then Don and I drove back to Warrnambool where we drove the remaining part of the Great Ocean Road northwest until we were  near Adelaide.  I was once again reminded, we have some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, here in our own back yard… Toto, we are in Oz.

Padthaway Estate Cellar Door

Padthaway Estate Cellar Door

Give me a home among the gum trees...

Give me a home among the gum trees…

Lilacs (my favourite)

Lilacs (my favourite)

Vintage tools for the vintner

Vintage tools for the vintner

Best's Great Western Cellar, Victoria

Best’s Great Western Cellar, Victoria

Heyward's Pub, Penola

Heyward’s Pub, Penola

Old school tools

Old school tools

7 of the 12 apostles, which are now only 9!

7 of the 12 apostles, which are now only 9!

Kangaroo in the Grampians (wild)

Kangaroo in the Grampians (wild)

Shoreline, Great Ocean Rd, Victoria

Shoreline, Great Ocean Rd, Victoria

Spring day along the Yarra River, Melbourne

Spring day along the Yarra River, Melbourne

Old and new Melbourne

Rialto towers, Melbourne

Black Swan and cygnet, Botanic Grdns, Melb

Black Swan and cygnet, Botanic Grdns, Melb

Waratah flower

Waratah flower

Cottage door, Cape Nelson Lighthouse

Cottage door, Cape Nelson Lighthouse

Cape Nelson Lighthouse

Cape Nelson Lighthouse

130yr old wall and Cottage Accom.

130yr old wall and Cottage Accom.

Cape Nelson, Victoria

Cape Nelson, Victoria

Wattle (Australia's flower emblem)

Wattle (Australia’s flower emblem)

Discovery Bay

Port MacDonnell

Field of Rape (canola oil is made from Rapeseed)

Field of Rape (canola oil is made from Rapeseed)

Can you stand a few more photos??? I told you I took lots!

Shoreline Great Ocean Road SA

Shoreline Great Ocean Road SA

How does Mother Nature produce such fine work?

Beachport SA – how does Mother Nature produce such fine work?

Sunset in Robe, SA

Sunset in Robe, SA

Cottage, Robe, SA

Cottage, Robe, SA

It is, after all, still the outback...

It is, after all, still the outback…

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