For all its fame, the Great Ocean Road retains an air of underdevelopment, this is no Gold Coast. There are small holiday towns with a range of tourist facilities but no glaring tacky attractions. Only a recently built conference resort in Lorne stands out as inappropriate. It is easy to spend at least three days [...]
Whilst the official start of the Great Ocean Road is still ahead, from Port Fairy on we can see the influence of the Big Smoke. Melbournians have carved out a series of weekend play places along the coast with Port Fairy just about its furthest reaches. The trendy cafe signs are a dead giveaway. Port [...]
We drove away from the Coorong, heading south for the seaside towns of Robe and Beachport, with one of David’s stories in our mind – the tale of the lonely murder in the last century of a serving woman at one of the stopping posts along what’s now the Princes Highway. What those early pioneers [...]
From water level the dunes tower above you. Orangey yellow, in stark contrast with the emerald green of the native grasses and plants. You walk across them to the crunch of millions of broken shells, like one giant graveyard. Look up and the blue sky reflects back to you and the birds keen above you. [...]
Stretching from the port town of Goolwa, past the mouth of the mighty Murray River, for more than 100 kilometres, the Coorong National Park is a thin spit of land encompassing a fragile dune, coastal and wetland environment and a network of salt and freshwater lakes. A long shallow lagoon is separated from the ocean [...]
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