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Bells Beach (Surf Coast)
Bells Beach (Used for world surfing competitions)
Kangaroos in the wild on the golf course!
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The start of the great ocean road
Top house (until the next bush fire burns it down...)
A Koala in the wild (with large claws)
View west down the south coast (there's almost 3500 miles of this before you get to Perth and the west coast!
Heading back inland, view towards coast
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Cool termperate rain forest (a bloody great tree)
Tree showing erosion around roots (and me!)
"Shipwreck Coast" 120 out of 1300 ships ran aground along this coast during the 100 years of the gold rush.
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That cave is where the only 2 survivors (out of 54) sheltered in 1826 after their ship ran aground
It may look top, but the sea here is vicious
...as you can see here
Note the arch where the waves have erroded away the limestone
Another arch
Interesting limestone rock formations
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The twelve apostles (there are only 11 now as one collapsed)
They were originally joined to the coast, the waves bored tunnels into the sectons that jutted out from the coast, then the top
One of the newer and more healthy of the apostles
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The other apostles (looking east)
One of the newer apostles
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