Great Ocean Metric Marathon

We arrived in Melbourne early Sunday morning, rented a car at the airport, and headed west towards the Great Ocean Road. We started our walk at Johanna Beach, the site of our first campground (not a bad spot, huh?)



The next day, we had a beautiful 13.5km walk along the clifftops, with great ocean views along the way.





We did see the same old livestock, but pretty soon the local fauna proved that we were no longer in NZ





Although these guys were pretty cute, after finding this guy as we rolled up our tent, we longed for the days of NZ where the most worrisome beast was an angry cow.



On the start of our third day, the plan was for a 15.5km walk, but we decided to start out early (pre-sunrise) in order to catch the low tide for a walk across Wreck Beach







However, this early start put us at our next campsite by 11am! Faced with a book-less afternoon in the rain, Louisa suggested we make a metric marathon of our day, and walk the next day's hike that afternoon (seriously, this was not Jon's idea). So we pushed on, muscles aching, for a total of 30km (18 miles!) today. We were rewarded at the end with great views of the 12 Apostles rock formation