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Spend a full day exploring the wonderful Great Ocean Road. Get to see all the highlights that the road as to offer. Tours departs on Wednesday mornings, leaving early from Melbourne to stay ahead of all the crowds.
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Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Melbourne, Australia
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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Spend a full day exploring the wonderful Great Ocean Road. Get to see all the highlights that the road as to offer. Tours departs on Wednesday mornings, leaving early from Melbourne to stay ahead of all the crowds.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: St Paul’s Cathedral, Cnr Flinders & Swanston Streets, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
We depart Melbourne nice and early to avoid all the traffic and other tour buses.
We have a big day ahead of us.
Duration: 1 minute
Pass By: Cafe La Hoot, 1 Willis St, Winchelsea VIC 3241, Australia
Travel through a little country town
Stop At: McDonald’s, 261 Murray St, Colac VIC 3250, Australia
We stop at the town of Colac for a bathroom and coffee break.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: The Arch, Great Ocean Rd, Port Campbell VIC 3269, Australia
Our first stop on the Great Ocean road
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: London Bridge, Great Ocean Rd, Peterborough VIC 3270, Australia
Visit the famous London Bridge
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Port Campbell precinct and foreshore, Port Campbell foreshore, Port Campbell, Victoria 3269 Australia
This is another bathroom stop.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Loch Ard Gorge, Great Ocean Road Port Campbell National Park, Victoria 3269 Australia
Enjoy 2 lookouts plus take the step down into the gorge.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Twelve Apostles, Great Ocean Rd & Booringa Rd, Princetown VIC 3269, Australia
It is now time to take a walk along the board walk to view the 12 apostles.
Helicopter flights over thew apostles are available at an extra cost.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Yatzies, 5225 Colac-Lavers Hill Rd, Lavers Hill VIC 3238, Australia
Time for lunch.
Enjoy the gardens and parrots while eating lunch (own cost)
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Mait’s Rest, 17km west of Apollo Bay, Apollo Bay, Victoria Australia
A walk through the rain forest
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Great Ocean Road Visitor Information Centre, 100 Great Ocean Rd, Apollo Bay VIC 3233, Australia
travel through the coastal holiday town of Apollo Bay
Stop At: Cape Patton Lookout Point, Great Ocean Road, Kennett River, Victoria 3234 Australia
Ocean lookout and photo opportunity
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Kennett River Family Caravan Park, 1-13 Great Ocean Rd, Kennett River VIC 3234, Australia
Time to look for koalas and parrots in the trees
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Lorne Beach, Mountjoy Parade, Lorne, Victoria 3232 Australia
enjoy the beach and the local shops
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Memorial Arch at Eastern View, 689/721 Great Ocean Rd, Eastern View VIC 3231, Australia
See the memorial arch
Read about the soldiers and building of the road
Take a walk on Fair haven beach
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Anglesea Visitor Information Centre, Great Ocean Road, Anglesea, Victoria 3230 Australia
Travel through holiday villages
Pass By: Aireys Inlet Skate Park, Main St Opposite the Bottom Shops, Aireys Inlet, Victoria 3231 Australia
Travel through holiday villages
Stop At: Bells Beach, 86 km (53 mi) SW of Melbourne; 25 km (16 mi) S of Geelong; 5 km (3 mi) SW of Torquay, Torquay, Victoria 3228 Australia
Ocean lookout,
look for kangaroos
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Southern Cross Station, Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3008 Australia
Arrive back into Melbourne around 6.30pm
Duration: 1 minute