Day 6 - Apollo Bay
After staying the night at James & Ali's place in Narre Warren, my parents & I took the ferry from Sorrento to Queenscliff to begin our journey along the Great Ocean Road, stopping for the evening in lovely Apollo Bay
November 26, 2004

01-Sorrento The port town of Sorrento, on the tip of the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, on Friday, November 26, 2004 02-PortPhillipBay Port Phillip Bay, as viewed from the Sorrento-Queenscliff ferry 03-SorrentoQueenscliffFerry A ferry boat heading the other way, from Queenscliff to Sorrento 04-BellsBeach Bells Beach, just outside of Torquay at the start of the Great Ocean Road 05-BellsBeach Bells Beach 06-Dunes Dunes 07-AngleseaBeach A rather empty but pleasant-looking beach near Anglesea 08-MistyHills Misty hills on the other side of the bay 09-DunesGrass Dunes, grass and ocean 10-AireysInletBeach A beach in Airey's Inlet 11-SplitPointLighthouse Split Point Lighthouse in Airey's Inlet 12-SplitPointLighthouse Split Point Lighthouse 13-SouthernOcean Split Point 14-SouthernOcean Southern Ocean ... the haze was partly from the heat and humidity, it was 96 F that day 15-SplitPointLighthouse Split Point Lighthouse 16-GreatOceanRoadSign Great Ocean Road landmark sign 17-MomDad-GreatOceanRoad Mom and Dad 18-JaredMom-GreatOceanRoad Me and Mom 19-TeddysLookout An illustration of just how winding and close to the ocean the Great Ocean Road really is, as viewed from Teddy's Lookout in Lorne 20-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 21-DeadTree Dead tree at Teddy's Lookout 22-DeadTree Another dead tree 23-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 24-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 25-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 26-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 27-AngahookLorneStatePark Peering into Angahook Lorne State Park from Teddy's Lookout 28-WhiteTree White gum 29-TeddysLookout Teddy's Lookout 30-Surf Surf 32-SeafarersGetaway Seafarer's Getaway, our lodging for the night just outside of Apollo Bay ... I had hoped to make it to the Twelve Apostles for sunset, but that just wasn't gonna happen 33-ApolloBay Apollo Bay and the Great Ocean Road 34-ApolloBay Apollo Bay 35-RoomView The view from our room ... yeah I picked this place out beforehand as where we were gonna stay, I'd say I did pretty good :-) 36-SeafarersGetaway Seafarer's Getaway 37-Hillside Hillside behind Seafarer's 38-Shadows Shadows on the beach 39-Reflections Reflections 40-Mom-Reflection Mom 41-Jared-Reflection Me 42-Sunset Sunset 43-Dad-Rocks Dad sitting on the rocks enjoying the sunset ... this was the most spectacular photo I took during my time abroad, and in March 2005 it earned me 3rd place in the Gustavus International Photo Contest :-) 44-Rocks Rocks 45-Rocks Rocks 46-Plants Plants 47-Patterns Some really cool capillary patterns in the sand 48-Sunset Sunset at Apollo Bay, on the beach directly across from Seafarer's 49-Dad-Rocks Dad sitting on the rocks 50-DrainagePatterns Drainage patterns 51-Beach Beach 52-Sunset Sunset 53-MyFootprints My footprints 54-Sunset Sunset 55-Sunset Sunset 56-Sunset Sunset 57-Sunset Sunset 58-Sunset-Rocks Sunset 59-Beach Beach and Seafarer's 60-Sunset Sunrise ... it was fun wading out into the ocean in search of good picture angles 61-Sunset Sunset at Apollo Bay 62-UnderwaterPlants Underwater plants 62-Sunset Sunset 63-Sunset Sunset 64-Rocks Rocks and tidal pools 65-Mom-AdmiringSunset Mom, admiring the sunset and the thoroughly pleasant evening 66-Clouds Clouds at sunset 67-SunsetClouds Sunset and clouds 68-ApolloBay Apollo Bay 69-Clouds Clouds at sunset 70-SunsetBay Sunset and Apollo Bay 71-UnderwaterPlants Underwater plants 72-Kelp Kelp 73-Clouds Clouds 74-MistyBay The bay, getting a bit misty 75-Clouds Clouds 76-Clouds Clouds 77-Clouds Clouds 78-Clouds Clouds 79-Dad-Rocks Dad on the rocks 80-ColouredRock Coloured rock 81-RisingMoon Rising moon 82-MomDad-Sunset Mom and Dad enjoying the last vestiges of sunset 83-Jared-Sunset I'm glad we stopped to enjoy the sunset at Apollo Bay instead of pressing on further 84-FullMoon Full moon on the rise 85-Clouds Clouds 86-RisingMoon Rising moon 87-ApolloBay Apollo Bay 88-RisingMoon Rising moon just after sunset 89-Reflections Dusk reflections 90-Reflections Reflections