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Johanna beach is situated on the Great Ocean Road between The Twelve Apostles and Apollo Bay. It's a back-up surfing championship beach for the famous Bells Beach at Torquay, though I'd never heard of Johanna before. It was a great spot to camp and a bonus was seeing 2 endangered species little Plovers (only 600 or so left in Austalia) running across the beach so fast you could hardly see their legs move. Rather funny to watch - like they were on wheels (but still no match for a wily fox, their main predator)
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Moonlight Head is a pretty spot we discovered quite by accident by choosing a random spot on our map that sounded romantic. It was well worth the gravel road drive 'off the beaten track' to get there. There are at least two walks you can take from the clifftop. It's just some kms east of the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road.
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This Billabong (little pond) is located quite deep in the rainforest, at the end of a quite rough gravel road beyond the town of Colac, around Beech Forest (the lake is poorly signposted and even with a map we struggled to find it because the road isn't labelled till you're several kms down it, but it's well worth the effort to find). This place is not on the Great Ocean Rd, but on the way to it. There is free camping here, and even facilities provided (quite unusual) and looks a great place to try out...we were only here a short while but saw yellow robins, parrots and lots of other birdlife. We took the short walk to the Billabong, but didn't have time to go further. Another hour's walk or so will bring you to Lake Elizabeth itself, a large lake which contains many platypus (and canoe tours to see them are conducted here)
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hindu1936 Sun Jun 11, 2006 08:39 UTC
nice tips, beautiful trees. we will be through there in 2010 on the final leg of our Round-The-World scooter trip. I am just now learning about what to see in Australia besides Uluru Rock and friends met (VTer's) in Newcstle and Darwin. | JOPIENE Sat Feb 19, 2005 20:21 UTC
Hi Kathryn, Nice page, we was there in 2000, do You forgot to visit Cape Bridgwater, lovely place. | Mez77 Thu Sep 18, 2003 00:08 UTC
Hi Kate...Great 'Great Ocean road' page. Excellent tips. Hopefully will put them to good use when I'm down that way at X-mas. | hunterV Mon Sep 15, 2003 17:27 UTC
It seems such a fascinating place, I wish I could see it all with my own eyes and experience the pleasure you have had... |
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