After a delicious lunch of a fresh salmon sandwich and sparkling wine at Cafe One 5 Three in Apollo Bay, we continued driving west and just past Princetown, stopped to see the famous "
Twelve Apostles", a group of stunning natural rock formations close to the shoreline. It is a very heavily promoted sight around here, and the name was even changed in the 1950's to attract more people (It was formerly known as 'Sow and Piglets'). Interestingly, there are only seven rock formations now, and no one knows if there were twelve originally, or (as my guidebook suggests) "the formation was named by a drunk with double vision". A few formations have collapsed over time as their bases eroded. The lookout spots were crawling with people- Mark commented that "it's like the United Nations out here" because there were so many different nationalities and languages surrounding us as we all tried to get our postcard perfect photo. Trying to just enjoy the scenery was almost impossible as everywhere we turned we were in the way of a camera lens. The cool thing to do is take a guided helicopter ride-only $80/person for 8 minutes (we passed). It was beautiful, but not a place to calmly reflect on the beauty of nature with photographers organizing informal family photos, cameras clicking, and helicopters and planes flying overhead. On the short walk back to our car, I was pleasantly surprised to see a vivid rainbow in the sky over a lush, open field. In fact, we continued to see rainbows each day of the trip. Along with the grazing livestock, windmills, wooden fences, open fields and trees, I couldn't help being reminded of Kansas.
After a delicious lunch of a fresh salmon sandwich and sparkling wine at Cafe One 5 Three in Apollo Bay, we continued driving west and just past Princetown, stopped to see the famous "Twelve Apostles", a group of stunning natural rock formations close to the shoreline. It is a very heavily promoted sight around here, and the name was even changed in the 1950's to attract more people (It was formerly known as 'Sow and Piglets'). Interestingly, there are only seven rock formations now, and no one knows if there were twelve originally, or (as my guidebook suggests) "the formation was named by a drunk with double vision". A few formations have collapsed over time as their bases eroded. The lookout spots were crawling with people- Mark commented that "it's like the United Nations out here" because there were so many different nationalities and languages surrounding us as we all tried to get our postcard perfect photo. Trying to just enjoy the scenery was almost impossible as everywhere we turned we were in the way of a camera lens. The cool thing to do is take a guided helicopter ride-only $80/person for 8 minutes (we passed). It was beautiful, but not a place to calmly reflect on the beauty of nature with photographers organizing informal family photos, cameras clicking, and helicopters and planes flying overhead. On the short walk back to our car, I was pleasantly surprised to see a vivid rainbow in the sky over a lush, open field. In fact, we continued to see rainbows each day of the trip. Along with the grazing livestock, windmills, wooden fences, open fields and trees, I couldn't help being reminded of Kansas.
3 comments:
Wow! This is really cool looking. Some great photos here...makes me want to visit that place.
Thanks, mate! Hope you get to visit there someday.
Your photos are so amazing! I am back in Seattle now for the summer and am thinking of you--thanks so much for keeping this blog and taking such wonderful pictures.
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