Jared Lee - Photo Album - Surfing-Lorne

For one of our IFSA-Butler excursions, some of us went on the surfing trip which took us to Lorne and other cool sights along the Great Ocean Road
October 24, 2004

01-BellsBeach Bells Beach, just west of Torquay on the Great Ocean Road

02-BellsBeach Bells Beach

03-BellsBeach Bells Beach

04-Surfers Some surfers at Bells Beach, which is a world-renowned hot-spot for surfers

05-BellsBeach Bells Beach

06-Surfer Surfer dude

07-Surfers Several surfers heading out into the waves

08-BellsBeach Bells Beach

08b-BellsBeach Bells Beach

09-BellsBeach Bells Beach

10-ScrubBrush Some of the scrubby brush inhabiting the sand dunes

11-RockPlatform Waves crashing over a rock platform

12-BellsBeach Bells Beach

13-BellsBeach Bells Beach, perhaps the most famous beach in all of Victoria

14-ColourfulDunny This is quite possibly the most colourful dunny (outhouse) that I've seen in my life ... it's at Bells Beach, and painted up in a Koori (Aboriginal) design

15-TakeCareSign I love the signs in Australia ... take care!

16-Angahook-LorneStatePark Just north of Lorne in Angahook-Lorne State Park

17-ErskineFalls Erskine Falls, in Angahook-Lorne State Park

18-Jared-ErskineFalls Me at Erskine Falls

19-ErskineFalls Erskine Falls

20-Jared-ErskineFalls I absolutely love waterfalls!

21-ErskineFalls Erskine Falls

22-ErskineFalls Erskine Falls

23-ErskineFalls Erskine Falls

24-ErskineRiver Erskine River

25-FernTrees Fern trees on the far bank

26-MossyRocks-Water Some mossy rocks at the base of the waterfall

27-LemonadeCreekTrack Lemonade Creek Track in Angahook-Lorne State Park ... several of the people in the group weren't all that excited for a 4km bushwalk, they just wanted to go to the beach, although I still liked going for a little hike

28-PurpleFlowers Some purple flowers along the trail

29-BurntStump In every forest I've walked through in Australia, there's been plenty evidence like this burnt stump of brushfires in the past

30-CharredTree A charred tree, serving as a reminder of the prevalence and inevitability of brushfires in Australia ... it's quite likely this is a remnant from the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires, which killed quite a few people and destroyed many homes along the Great Ocean Road, making it the most devastating brushfire in Victoria's history, and one of the worst in all of Australian history

31-FallenTree A fallen tree along the path that we had to duck under

32-EucalyptForest Eucalypt forest

33-Jared-AngahookLorneStatePark Me in the rainforest of Angahook-Lorne State Park

34-Jared-BloodSap Pretending to lick a little bit of the

35-Sharon Sharon, laughing after Caroline's ankle got painfully whipped by a branch for a second time in the span of just a couple minutes :-)

36-LorneBeach After lunch we finally arrived at our primary destination, the surf beach at Lorne, another town along the Great Ocean Road

37-LorneBeach Lorne surf beach

38-Stretching Sharon, one of the Melbourne Uni girls, Krista & Caroline getting a feel for the wetsuits before going out ... Jodee, our IFSA coordinator here in Victoria, is standing behind Krista

39-KristaJaredCarolineSharon-Surfboards Krista, me, Caroline & Sharon, the four

40-Jared-Surfboard Surfing was soooo fun!! Even when I'd take a nosedive on the board and getting tumbled around like a washing machine beneath the waves, hehe

41-Lorne Loutit Bay, at Lorne's surf beach

42-CarolineSharon Caroline & Sharon at Lorne

43-Jared-LorneBeach Me at Lorne

44-GreatOceanRoad Great Ocean Road, looking across a bay at Aireys Inlet

45-SplitPointLighthouse Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet

46-GreatOceanRoad The spectacular Great Ocean Road hugs the Victorian coast all the way from Torquay to Warrnambool, and is quite curvy as a result ... in fact, the Great Ocean Road is one of Australia's biggest tourist attractions!

47-KristaSharonCaroline Krista, Caroline & Sharon

48-Jared-GreatOceanRoad I love the Great Ocean Road!

49-PointRoadknightBeach Point Roadknight Beach, by the town of Anglesea

50-PtRoadknightReflections Reflections at Point Roadknight Beach

51-PtRoadknightBeach Point Roadknight Beach

52-PtRoadknightBeach Point Roadknight Beach

53-Shadows Two photographers' shadows

54-MossyRocks Mossy rocks at Point Roadknight Beach

55-MossyRocks Mossy rocks

56-Rocks Point Roadknight Beach

57-MossyRocks-Dog Someone brought their dog down to the beach

58-PointRoadknight Point Roadknight

59-Bay Point Roadknight Beach

60-PointRoadknightBeach Looking back at Point Roadknight Beach

61-Driftwood Driftwood

62-ThornyBush A thorny bush that was making it more than a bit uncomfortable to snap the driftwood photos

63-Driftwood Driftwood

64-Bird A heron of some sort sitting on top of a rock at Point Roadknight

65-Bird I managed so sneak up fairly close to the bird too, I was surprised

66-PointRoadknightBeach Point Roadknight Beach

67-Bush-Bay A bush & the bay

68-Jellyfish A jellyfish that washed up on the beach

69-RoughSurf Some really rough surf on the back side of Point Roadknight ... I'm glad we weren't surfing here!

70-Pillar Rock pillar

71-HoleInTheRock Hole in the rock

72-Pool Tidal pool

73-Jared-Rock Sitting on a rock at Point Roadknight ... climbing all the way out there over slippery and sharp rocks in flip-flops may not have been the wisest idea, but I managed to avoid any accidents, hehe

74-MelbourneUniBoys A couple of the Melbourne Uni boys at Point Roadknight

75-RockPools Some rock pools at Point Roadknight

76-MiniWaterfall When a wave would come in, it would trigger a little mini-waterfall

77-MiniWaterfall Mini-waterfall

78-SunRocks The sun dipping towards the horizon

79-Sun-Rocks Silhouetted rocks at Point Roadknight

80-DuskColours The colours of dusk at Point Roadknight Beach ... we had a nice bbq picnic there

81-DuskColours The colours of dusk

82-Jared-Dusk It was a bit chilly for just swimmers and a t-shirt, but I was too lazy to get my jumper

83-JaredJodeeSharonKristaCaroline Me, Jodee, Sharon, Krista & Caroline

84-Sharon'sDress-Taxi Sharon shut her dress in the door for the taxi ride back to Monash, hehe