24-26/4/03
THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD, VICTORIA Darren, Keith, and I decided to go
on a 3 day tour of the Great
Ocean Road, a vast stretch of roadway
overlooking rockcliffs in southeastern
Australia. 20 people were in our tour group - from Japan, The US, Germany, England, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada. We were so overwhelmed with beautiful scenery that we became immune to it after a while. The first night we spent in a little house
owned by the tour company, where Keith taught everyone
how to play his favourite cardgame,
Palace, and had everyone playing. The second night we went camping
at a wonderful private site where
we could mountain bike and canoe on the lake. We saw tons of wildlife: koalas, emus, wallabies, and kangaroos. The old-growth forests were amazing (but with much the same deforestation issues as in the states. Australia is a major wood-chip exporter to Japan).
