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 [...]
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 [...]
We left Adelaide on a blue summer’s day – there’s nothing like setting off on a road trip. A buzz of anticipation in your belly, neat clean clothes in your bag, a car devoid of rubbish, sand and discarded brochures. Driving through the dry parched rolling hills south of the city, heading for a peninsula [...]
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