Jannis & Martine

Here are some of pictures of our vist to the Grampians natural park, as described in the previous post. 

But, before moving on to that that, first two more pictures from our visit in the gold rush surrounds, with Martine in miner’s gear in the Bendigo mine (in case you hadn’t noticed it in th previous posts) and a nice view of the Vaughan Springs park, which we visited before me moved on to the Grampians area.

Here are our pictures from the three days we visited the Grampains natural park, starting with a typical view of the landscape and first views at a lookout of the Grampians area, before we moved for some walks into the mountains itself, to get views of:

the many old volcanic lava fields by doing a 5 km walk to get to the Pinnacle lookout,

many burnt trees up to the way up to the Balconnees lookout, as the whole area was burnt down 2 years ago by a very big bushfire,

and lots of typical Australian gras trees (it needs fire to grow – it only grows a little bit every time after the top (‘gras’) of the tree has been burnt down by a fire) to the McKenzie falls.

After we had visited the Halls Gap Aboriginal Centre we moved on to the coast, visting a very nice extinct volcanic crater near Pensherst village, before moving on to stay in a Irish style hotel in Koroit – a village raised by Irish immigrants.

On the advice of the hotel owner, we visited the Tower Hill natural park in the evening before going to sleep. On vistiting the park we were suprised to see that we Koroit is located very close to the coast and then we were suprised to see groups of kangeroos close by, emu’s and even a walking (!) koala changing trees before nightfall.

This was a very good start for our Great Ocean Road drive, which we wold start the next day.

Here a preview of what we have seen at Great Ocean Road trip, with our best picture, yet:

the 12 Apostols rock formation, on a rainy evening…

Jannis. 

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