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October 16 - Great Ocean Road
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We leave after our second night at the Melbourne Holiday Park in Coburg at 9 AM into Melbourne's Thursday morning rush hour traffic. We stop for fuel and coffees at 10:30 AM near Geelong, the starting point of the Great Ocean Road. Around noon, we stop at Narana Creations in Grovedale, Victoria.

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Split Point Light House, nicknamed the White Lady at Airey's Inlet.

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Eagle Rock from the lookout point below Split Point Light House.

We stop for a late lunch in Lorne at 3 PM.

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Cape Palton lookout 4:30 PM

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Walked through a relatively untouched rainforest gulley at Mait's Rest Rainforest Walk (5:30 PM) just beyond Apollo Bay in the Otway National Park.

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After watching the sunset at Moonlight Head Gable we drive back to the main road where we see a sign for Otway Deer and Wildlife Country Cottages. After the proprietress tells us a story about a kangaroo that wrecked her car and the insurance customer service she dealt with, we unpack and drive down to Princetown (Victoria) where we eat at "Talk of the Town" at 8 PM.


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