Wednesday, March 2, 2011

JOHANNA'S BEACH

Departed Warrnambool Showgrounds about midday and after stopping at K-Mart, Hungry Jacks and refueling (Diesel $1.41.9) we traveled via the Great Ocean Road to Port Campbell where we went to most of the attractions along the way (with everybody from overseas as well! - all packed into large tourist buses), Places we stopped at were: Bay of Islands, The Grotto, Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge, The Razorback, 12 Apostles(photo) - although I'm sure there is not 12 anymore, unless I can't count! After doing the tourist thing we traveled through the Otway Ranges which are covered in thick beech & stringy-bark forests with tree ferns - very pretty. 
Around 5pm we ended up at a remote surf beach in the Otway National Park called Johanna's Beach, 
which would be an excellent beach for surf fishing as well. It's about 15 kms from Laver's Hill 
down a steep hill. A few other campers and backpackers arrived later than us as well and yes it 
started to rain again. No Internet or Vodafone mobile but poor Telstra mobile coverage here.