Melba Gully National Park

MAGNIFICENT OTWAY RANGES-Forest walks in Maits Rest and Melba Gully

After a superb drive through the MAGNIFICENT OTWAY RANGES along the Great Ocean Road we decided to do some forest walks in Maits Rest and Melba Gully which are beautiful temperate rainforests and which became logging camps to extract the huge forest trees there and which have now been preserved.

Melba Gully State Park

Melba Gully State Park é um parque com uma área de picnic bem bacana e uma trilha na floresta que leva a uma cascata, mas a atração principal chega com a noite, são as glow worms! Uma espécie de larva que têm uma substância que absorve a luz durante o dia e brilha na escuridão. A trilha é bem fácil e tranquila e é nela que vc vai ver as glow worms. Espere até escurecer completamente e apague as lanternas, espere até seus olhos se adaptarem e você vai ver o céu estrelado na terra :)
Se você for no verão lembre-se que anoitece beeem tarde, chegamos lá as 8h30 e só escureceu mesmo ás 10h (você consegue ver as larvas brilhando antes de escurecer completamente mas não será a mesma coisa). Na trilha ainda pode ser visto um eucalipto de 60 metros que caiu em 2009 abrindo uma clareira na floresta e se você tiver sorte pode ver algum ornitorrinco na cascata (infelizmente não tivemos essa sorte).

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Maits Rest Rainforest Walk / Alpacas at Lavers Hill (Melbourne Vlog)

Day 3 Part 2 of our Melbourne Holiday.
Date: 15 December 2015.
Starring: Jen & family.
Video by: Clement Liew.
Skip to see Alpacas at Lavers Hill: 8:40

Watch Day 3 Part 1 (Wild Koala Bear Encounter, Stacking rocks at Carisbrook Creek & Scenic Great Ocean Road Drive) -

Australia Great Ocean Road - Jim Rogers Around the World

Leading economic expert Jim Rogers traveled to 150 countries over 150,000 miles in three years - follow his adventures here on FentonReport.

In this video Jim travels the Great Ocean Road in Australia.

The Great Ocean Road is a 243 km stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The road was constructed to provide work for returning soldiers and dedicated as a Memorial to those killed in the First World War. It is one of Australia's great scenic coastline drives.

The Great Ocean Road starts at Torquay and travels westward to the outskirts of Warrnambool. The road forms about 90% of B100 (previously designated as State Route 100), the remaining 10% known as the Surfcoast Highway which joins Geelong to Torquay.

The Great Ocean Road was built by 3000 returned servicemen (or Diggers) as a war memorial for fellow servicemen who had been killed in the First World War.

The idea for the road was suggested as far back as 1864. Surveying began in 1918 and construction took place between 1919 and 1932.

Parts of the Great Ocean Road run around steep coastal mountains. These were the trickiest and the final sections to be built.

In 1922 the section from Eastern View to Lorne was completed.

In 1932 the section from Lorne to Apollo Bay was finished, thus completing the entire road.

Much of the road hugs the coast tightly, offering outstanding views of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean.

Between Anglesea and Apollo Bay is a particularly scenic stretch of road which passes through many towns where mountains meet the sea. The main beach in Lorne offers great views of Louttit Bay nestled in a natural amphitheatre of hills, and Teddy's Lookout is not far from the main street.

The section near Port Campbell provides access by foot or helicopter to some of the most scenic coastline in the world, because of its striking and dramatic natural limestone and sandstone rock formations. These formations have been created by erosion from waves and rain and include Loch Ard Gorge, the Grotto, London Bridge (renamed to London Arch after the 'bridge' partly collapsed), and most famously the Twelve Apostles.

Around Lorne there are many forest walks which visit impressive waterfalls. Erskine Falls is a 15 minute drive inland from Lorne. Kennett River is a popular spot for koala spotting.

Between Apollo Bay and Gellibrand Lower, the road passes through the Great Otway National Park, which includes some of the last surviving temperate rainforests in the south of Australia. A walk at Mait's Rest offers spectacular views of tree-ferns and Myrtle Beeches.

After Lavers Hill is Melba Gully State Park which includes a 40-minute walk through tree ferns, Myrtle Beeches, Australian Blackwoods, passing a giant Otway Messmate and beautiful river cascades. If you return at night with a spotlight you will see thousands of Arachnocampa glowworms.

The road's speed limit varies from 80 km/h (50 mph) to 100 km/h (62 mph) out of urban areas. However, its sharp curves make it difficult to maintain those speeds. It is a two lane roadway (one lane in each direction). Urban area speed limits vary from 50 km/h (31 mph) to 70 km/h (43 mph). There are speed cameras at intervals along the road.

Otway Treetop Walk - A must do in Victoria Australia

The Treetop Walk is a 1 hour rainforest walk experience that is approx 2km in total and features a 600mt long and 30mt high steel structured treetop canopy walkway that takes you right into the treetops. It’s the longest and tallest walkway of its type in the world and includes a thrilling cantilever. #DISTANTLANDS #TRAVELTIPS #TRAVEL

Maits Rest Rainforest Walk

Sheoak Falls & Cumberland Valley - Bushwalking Victoria

Following the hiking trail off The Great Ocean Rd, past Sheoak Falls, Swallow's Cave, Sheoak Picnic Area, up and over the ridge, dropping into the high-walls of Cumberland Valley.

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