Sovereign Hill and the Great Ocean Road

Last week we visited Sovereign Hill, which is a fake 1850s gold rush town (though they really did mine gold there). They had loads of old fashioned shops and houses, with people all dressed up. We went to a musket firing demo and a wheel-making demo, ate some old fashioned liquorice, dressed up for an old fashioned photo and did a bit of gold panning (unsuccessful). So that was fun.




Then this weekend, off we went eastwards early Saturday morning, visiting Geelong (pronounced Jelong not Jeeeelong) for breakfast. By lunchtime we'd reached the Great Ocean Road - basically a twisty cliff ocean road built by convicts. The weather was great. Then we took a diversion on a whim following a sign to a treetop walk, and found ourselves on a road which was nothing but corners - we kept turning left and right for miles and I felt a bit sick. We did find the treetop walk in a small rainforest. It was pretty high up. They have massive trees here. And it did rain in the rainforest, though the rest of the day was blue skies.

Afterwards, we went on to the Twelve Apostles - they are what people associate with the Great Ocean Road.


Those are only two of them. And a couple have collapsed so there aren't actually twelve any more. Here's a couple more Apostles and Paul.


We stayed the night at a place called Port Fairy which was cool because it had buildings like you might see in the UK (i.e. over 50 years old, stone). We went for a walk around a small island there where there was a lighthouse and wallabies. There is a video including a wallaby scratching itself below, if my internet connection can cope with uploading it.