Nil - Day 11 (16.3.)

The second day of the Great Ocean Road started with the alarm at 6:30 am, but after many alarms going off, my group (Roman, Nikita, Leon T., Enrico, Kenan) & I slept in. We finally  woke up at 6:45 am. The day before Mrs. Otten told us that we would meet at 7 am  at the entry of the hostel (Port Campbell) so that we can walk together to near by mountain from where we could see the sunrise. So my group had to hurry up but Leon, Kenan and I arrived 5 minutes later, so they left without us. I called Nikita and after some confusion about the trail we were able to find our way back to our whole group. So we waited together for the beautiful sunrise which was covered with clouds.

On our  return back to the hostel we had our breakfast.There was cereal, but when it was my turn to take some all the *good cereal* was already taken. I was happy that there were pancakes to eat. Then we made some sandwiches for the way in the bus.

The check-out needed to be quick because our day was very busy. We looked forward to arrive at Port Campbell National Park where John, our tour guide was waiting for us.

John Mc Cartney

John first took us threw the Low-Lying-Vegetations (bushes, grass, …) and telling us a lot about the plants and the bushfires there.

Loch Ard Gorge

On the way we stopped at Loch Ard Gorge. A wonderful place with much history. By the way, I won’t tell you anything about the history, because if I would do that my blog would be much more than one page! Most of us skimming the flat stones over the water. I was one of them who was really bad in it. Not to forget is taking lots of  photos of the location.

12 Apostles

Our next point was at the incredible 12 Apostels! You just have to look at the photo and know it’s a place which you can recommend to everyone. The Apostels are the rocks you see on the photo, but they aren’t 12 anymore because most of them eroded. However just recently some more were found below the sea level. The "12 Apostles" were formerly called "The Sow and Pigs" but that was not really attractive, so Tourism Victoria/ Government of Victoria renamed them.

London Bridge

The last rock we saw in the National Park was London Bridge. You see why it is called Bridge.

The National Park covered just the half of the day but we already saw so much, it was awesome!

The Bullant
I was sure that something dangerous will happen over our stay in Australia. And today it happened - Mrs. Otten got bitten by an insect on the way back to the bus. She was lucky that it wasn’t poisonous. 

(Edit by Mrs Otten: Fortunately it was not poisonous but it hurt quite badly. That bullant flew into my cleavage and bit me four times. Really? Once would have been enough! On the photo it does not look that mean, but I can tell you, it certainly is a nasty bite!)

Mrs. Otten also brought us an ice cream because it was so hot. The weather was so hot, that even some people got sunburn on their feet. I was lucky because I don’t get sunburnt so easily.

Nick’s feet

After another long bus ride we went to our next hostel in Warrnambool where I was in the same room groups like in the first hostel. Near to our hostel was the beach so we went all together to the beach. We enjoved the very very cold water and the music that we played on our speaker. It was an extremly good feeling! 

Beach

You think it’s over now but until yet we had something to do. After having a fast shower cause their where just three shower cubicles for the boys we went to another National Park called "Tower Hill Reserve" were we walked on the top of the volcano to have a great view.

Top of the volcano 

That was the last place we went today. When we were back at the hostel we ordered some pizza, talked and played some games. A great way to end this awesome day!

But I think I have forgot to thank our busdriver Neill who drove us everywhere and stopped when ever someone saw a Koala.

I am looking forward to have more of these great days!

New words to add:

Brolly: Another word for umberella.

Skimming: The verb that you would use when you throw a stone over the water so that it bounces.

Thongs: Another word for Flip-Flop