The Great Ocean Road: Lorne

Today my host family took me to a beach in Lorne, which is found along the Great Ocean Road. The Great Ocean Road is a road that was built by soldiers returning from World War I. The soldiers needed jobs when they returned from the war and the road was actually built as a memorial to the Australian soldiers that died in the war. The road is very curvy as it follows the coastline and extends about 150 miles.

This is me at the entrance to the road.

It took about an hour to travel from Waurn Ponds (the suburb I'm staying in that's outside of Geelong) to Lorne. Here are some waves on the beach at Lorne.

This is a view of the coast and water at Lorne. As you can see, it is mountainous behind the coast.
Here is another view of the water. This picture doesn't do it justice.


Lorne is a popular spot and was heavily populated today. Below is a portion of the Great Ocean Road that didn't have near as many visitors. Much of the coastline is very rocky like this.


This is another spot along the road that is very rocky and didn't have many visitors.

Australia doesn't consist of only coastlines and kangaroos. Believe it or not, parts of Australia look very similar to Kentucky. Once we were finished at the beach, we drove back to Waurn Ponds. There were several farms. I saw cattle, horses, and sheep. There were also huge bales of hay--just like you would find in Kentucky. Below are some cattle---the picture isn't great, but Peter was driving around 100 km/hr, so it was kind of hard to get a good one.