May Squares #29 At Day’s End

Postcards from The Great Ocean Road ~ Joining Becky for May Squares, featuring scenes along Victoria’s  iconic Great Ocean Road.

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The heritage listed Great Ocean Road follows the coast of south-eastern Victoria from Torquay to Allansford for 241 kilometres, past beautiful sandy beaches and bays, through lush rainforests and over rugged limestone cliffs. Built by soldiers returned from World War One between 1919 and 1932, and dedicated to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, the road is the world’s largest war memorial. Construction of the road provided employment for more than 3,000 returned servicemen, giving them purpose and providing much needed rehabilitation after the horrors of war. The Great Ocean Road linked towns along the coast previously only accessed by sea or tracks through the bush and created a route now acknowledged as one of the most scenic tourist drives in the world. 

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Bay of Islands Coastal Park

It was early evening by the time we reached the Bay of Islands Coastal Park, our last stop on the Great Ocean Road. 

In the fading light the colours of the limestone stacks deepened and the contrast between the red earth and bluish green of the cushion bushes was even more stark.

Groups of sea birds, clustered together on the rocks, looked more at home than these two corellas. We wondered how long it would be before they moved on, finding somewhere more hospitable to spend the night.