Don and Christine's 6-month journey around coastal Australia ... and beyond
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Blown away by this house when we drove the Great Ocean Road a while ago, but didn’t get a photo then. Now we’re tripping it again with Katie and managed to stop nearby for a pic. Suspended 40 metres above the road at Fairhaven Beach, it’s the most photographed house on the Great Ocean Road, probably Australia, and was featured on their Grand Designs a few years ago.
These amazing layered sedimentary rocks near Port Arthur look like Inca paving stones, having eroded over millennia into oblong blocks about 40cm high. Australian geology/geography is really interesting and varied.
On leaving Port Macquarie and rounding a bend at 95Km/h, a caravan towed by a ute in front of us lost a good deal of his load. With debris spread over both lanes, it was a matter of running over what we couldn't avoid. A mighty whump followed and on arriving at Coffs Harbour, we found quite a bit of our undercarriage plumbing mising. Handy Mr Fixit has his work cut out tomorrow! (Maybe he can rig something up using this Thong Tree?)
What a fascinating place, which was as much about expansion of Empire as punishment and reform of the worst of the worst of British society. Established initially as a timber camp in 1830, it’s a beautiful place to explore on a warm summer day. In contrast to bitterly cold winters and harsh mtreatment of around 11,000 criminals until the penal settlement finally closed in 1877. In a time of poverty and political upheaval in Europe, many men were broken but some left Port Arthur rehabilitated and skilled.
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