THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD | A PHOTO DIARY - PART 1

Our first stop was Bells Beach, infamous for holding the RipCurl Surfing Championships every year. 

We then continued along The Great Ocean Road until we came across this memorial arch, which commemorates those who fell during the first world war. 

A casual selfie in the wing mirror during a short pit stop to attached the GoPro onto the roof of the campervan. 

We pulled over (again!) for a bite to eat in a little village called Lorne, which was beautiful and the famous road drives straight through the middle of the centre! 

The picture above is where St. George's River meets the sea, running under The Great Ocean Road. 

The Great Ocean Road is full of some beautiful scenery! We stopped at pretty much every place we could. 

We stopped overnight in Apollo Bay which was just over the road which you can see in the above photo. 

KOALA CONSERVATION CENTRE - PHILLIP ISLAND | PHOTO DIARY

Crossing the bridge onto Phillip Island. We found a holiday park in Cowes on the island where we camped overnight. After missing the Penguin Parade the previous night we decided to visit the Koala Conservation Centre. 

In the first section there were quite a few Koalas but they were really high up in the trees and i had to zoom all the way to try and get a photo of them. 

But then we moved into the next sanctuary and there was a Koala sitting in a tree about an arms width away, and even more importantly it was awake! Koalas sleep for 20 hours a day so to actually see one moving around and eating eucalyptus so close to us was amazing. 

We then did the woodland walk to try and capture a glimpse of other native Australian animals. We were quite lucky and saw a couple of swamp wallabies and also an echidna.

And also of course, a kookaburra! One of my favourite birds due to the fluff and the cuteness. 

GOLDEN BEACH (90 MILE BEACH) | PHOTO DIARY

Golden Beach stretches along the edge of the Gippsland Lakes for, you guessed it, ninety miles! The colour of the sand practically looks like it's covered in a plethora of gold, also giving it it's name. 

The sand was covered in shells of all shapes and sizes too, everyone unique in itself, just like us humans. 

This was definitely one of those places that made you feel incredibly lucky and thankful. It was stunning and i would love to go back and be able to walk further along the beach, paddling through the water and looking through the shells. 

Yes, i absolutely loved it here! 

MOLLYMOOK & ULLADULLA | PHOTO DIARY

Mollymook is a tiny town with a big beach, and is quite unknown. But that's the beauty of it, there was hardly anyone around and no tourists! Well, apart from us...

Mollymook is about a minutes drive from Ulladulla, where we decided to stop for lunch after having to hunt down a supermarket. 

Ulladulla is a small port town, with a little bay which probably isn't the best for swimming in. Nevertheless, it was a lovely place. 

JERVIS BAY | PHOTO DIARY

Our first night in the campervan was spent in a small town called Huskisson, situated on Jervis Bay. When we arrived it was dark but we could work out a lake next to us, but when we awoke it was a white sand beach! The photo above is what was covered in water,  but look how pretty it is with the sun beaming through the clouds. I've also just decided that this photo looks severely photoshopped, i can assure you that i have done nothing to the initial photo.

We were also awoken to a kookaburra laughing from a tree above us. 

This is the view i woke up to. It's beautiful even with the rain clouds (which luckily just missed us)

All the sand was white and the beach curved around the length of the bay. The town we were in was right in the heart of it.

KIAMA BLOWHOLE | PHOTO DIARY

Kiama Blowhole was the first place of many that we wanted to visit on our drive down to Melbourne from Sydney. Although we arrived later then planned, it turned out to be the best time to visit. The sun had just begun to set and the horizon had a lovely pink and orange glow.

The blowhole itself is created when waves from the sea rush into a cave under the rocks as the water tries to rush back out, another wave comes and pushes the water out of a hole above, creating a blowhole. 

The white lighthouse in Kiama was also very pretty.

This is when we knew we had made the right decision, to drive the coastal route to Melbourne via the Princes Highway...

We were treated to a gorgeous sunset on our drive from Kiama to Jervis Bay. The first of many.