Great Ocean Road - Western End
We stayed a night in Warnambool on the west end of the road and drove along the spectacular limestone coast en route back to Sale.
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Warnambool
Our campground was right on the beach
Bay of Islands
The bay includes many impressive rock formations
Just inland the landscape is flat...
but we met a native...
in a wetland area
"The Grotto"
View back west towards the Bay of Islands
The Grotto is a limestone sinkhole...
with a nice archway framing the sea
London Arch
Known as London Bridge when the stack was attached by another arch to the mainland...
This span collapsed in 1990...
leaving an island
Beach west of the arch
London Arch - Loch Ard Gorge
East towards 12 Apostles
Loch Ard Gorge
Elephant Rock
The clipper Loch Ard ran aground on this point in 1878...
the two survivors were washed up in this bay
Limestone cave
Graveyard of the 49 who perished
Thunder Cave
The Apostles
A ninth stack collapsed in 2005 (the rubble is on the left)
This coast features 8 sea stacks and many eroding headlands like this that will form stacks in the future
View east
Views west
© Tim Cooke 2008
