08.05.23 Melbourne, Australia - Day 5 - Part 2

Next up we headed towards Apollo Bay for lunch. Along the way we stopped at Castle Cove. It was our first peak of the ocean again after driving inland a bit on the Great Ocean Road.

Lunch was at the Great Ocean Road Brewhouse in Apollo Bay. The brewery is the furthest south on the Australian continent. I had a tasty hamburger for lunch while Julie had risotto and trevor had a very unsaucy curry. During lunch we discussed our next stop and figured out we didn’t really have time to make it to either the treetop walk or a zip line we were looking at as options. We decided instead to stop in Kennet River to check out a location known for having koalas in the wild,,

After lunch we were back on the Great Ocean Road for our drive to Kennet River. Blink and you might miss it. But we found it was totally worth the stop. The next 1.5 hours was amazing. We slowly took a path back into the forest. At the start of our walk we saw a wallaby on the hillside across the river as well as a variety of birds. We the. Made our way further into the forest with us all looking up I got the trees to see if we could spot a koala. I found the first one. It looked like a bulbous Spey around a branch. Thankfully with the use. Of the binoculars and Trevor’s amazing camera zoom, we confirmed it was a sleeping koala. Trevor spotted the next one. This one was actually moving around a bit. It was mostly turned away from us, but eventually turned its head to face us. It was so cute. I saw it yawn. Trevor found the next one too. And julie the last one. Both were stationary and well camouflaged. But still very cute. It was late afternoon and the light was headed toward dusk in the forest as we headed back to the car. 3 of the 4 koalas had moved and we could no longer see them on our way back. The most amazing thing happened when we were mostly back to the car. I looked up and just ahead around some trees, I saw a couple of kangaroos heading our way. We all stopped off to the side and waited for them to pass us. Thankfully we were ina wider spot on the trail, so they could do it easily. Just when we thought it might be clear a huge group of them came bounding towards us. It was so amazing. Once they had passed, we thought ok, let’s go only to look up and see another group heading our way. It was the coolest part of the whole day. We had just been saying how cool it had been to see the kolalas in the wild, then to have this huge mob of kangaroos come bounding our way. What a way to end our travels along the Great Ocean Road. As soon after we headed back to Melbourne. What a day!

08.05.23 Melbourne, Australia - Day 5 - Part 2

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