Sunday, June 02, 2024

Australia Day 4 - Melbourne Great Ocean Road Private Tour

12 May - Booking a private tour means that the itinerary can be flexible. We get to decide the time to spend at a venue. Not enough time? Feel free to drop a few places that we are not keen off the list! Saw rave reviews about 88 Luxury Tours on Klook and decided to book it for our Great Ocean Road day trip.

*Private tip from Melvin, the owner of 88 Luxury Tour: It is cheaper to book direct. Easily 20% off Klook price. If paying by cash, it could be another A$100 off!

Anyway, we meetup with Melvin at 7am at our hotel lobby and was greeted with a foggy street! Fortunately, the fog clears once the sun came up. For this trip, we did the reverse way (We took the long drive to the 12 Apostles first to avoid the usual tourist crowd).

Heavy fog in the morning at Courtyard Melbourne Flagstaff Gardens

Arrived at 12 Apostles after 3.5 hours, including a quick stop for breakfast 

The Twelve Apostles

Loch Ard Gorge

Island Arch Lookout

Tom and Eva Lookout

The Razorback

Gibson Steps

After we are done with the Great Ocean Road, we began our slow drive back to Melbourne, on the way stopping to catch Koala Bears and wallabies living in the wild!

One wild Koala spotted

A hill full of wallabies (and their droppings on the grass)

Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch

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