The Great Ocean Road

After leaving Woolsthorpe we began our last major leg of our journey along The Great Ocean Road. This stretch of coastal highway was one of the main reasons we travelled to southern Australia. The narrow, two-lane highway attracts over seven million travellers each year. Each bend in the highway exposed a more stunning view than the one before. We stopped often to take photographs. We had replaced our damaged digital camera and our new camera enabled us to take some beautiful pictures; however, they still do not fully capture the beauty of this part of the world. We spent the day tramping across sand dunes and through scrub grass in an attempt to get that perfect vantage point. At one stop, we were walking down a gravel path when a rather large black snake slithered across in front of us. It turns out it was a copperhead. So, let's check the scoreboard. Three weeks in this country, and we have already seen one of the deadliest spiders and now we have come across one of the deadliest snakes. When we mentioned seeing the snake to a local later in the day, they were surprised. We were told snakes usually hear you coming and are long gone before you ever get close enough to seeing them. Just our luck! We must have run into a deaf snake.