Category: Road trip

The Great Ocean Road

One weekend we went for a ride by the ocean.

All towns there are for the surfers.

-What’s for dinner?
-The one on the left. Or should we have both?

Iluka means “by the sea” in some native language.

Local jungle.

As soon as you step into the forest you can feel damp and chill. We thought it’s going to be a terrible cold night.

But it wasn’t that bad elsewhere.

Possum on the stub and very architectural plants.

Later on we saw a koala above the road.

Very expressive creature.

We have already been at this camp ground.

We walked a couple of kilometres towards the sea.

The beauty with earrings.

Laurius is making dinner.

Low tide. White line a bit further – the birds.

Next morning we continued our trip.

So true 🙂

The story behind this photo is this. My mother was taking a photo of us and didn’t see the wave coming, but we did

Luckily she was able to get away with dry feet.

Posing next to the twelve apostles.

There have been few shipwrecks on these shores.

Paskutinės is keliones

In the morning we went to Yorke Peninsula.

We were driving empty winding roads passing small towns. Here the view is the same for hours – just fields of grain.

Every town has an information center and some attraction for tourists. For example, you can take a photo with locals.

We also heard that it is really expensive to live here, but we have no idea why.

The views like this all the way.

At the end of peninsula we entered Innes National Park. Emu greeted us.

Soon the sealed road ended. We were driving on some salty white surface. Lizards were warming up in the sun.

Not far away from the campsite you can rent a room in a hotel like this.

That’s not a fruit pie… 🙂

In the evening we were enjoying the warmth and having some beers until we were attacked by flies and mosquitoes.

I wouldn’t like to meet the one like this while swimming.

How can kangaroo jump with balls like this? 🙂

Romantic gourmets. In the evening a pair of sooty oystercatchers were walking on the beach and having oysters for dinner.

Another cabin for rent. They say it’s ideal for the honeymoon. Conveniences are minimal – rain water tank, which can be empty.

One of the many islands.

The color of the ocean like not real.

Girls running on the beach. It somehow reminds some 90’s music videos.

We visited the remains of historic Innestown, where they used to dig gypsum.

A shipwreck.

The view from the cliff.

The signs are not very promising and the wind is enormous.

Photos about flies and ants.

And about foxes.

We were really happy to meet this quite rare Hooded Plover again.

It runs really fast and funny.

Big nest on the pole. I wonder whose.

After a couple of nights we went home. Some sculptures near the highway.

The same day we went to St Kilda.

We met some crabs.

Not only birds.

So this is how our first vacation ended.

Vacation day 10. Mount Remarkable National Park (Flinders Ranges)

So we were staying at our fancy camping with drinking water and warm showers.

In the morning we went for a walk and met tiny doves.

Diamond dove (lat. Geopelia cuneata). So what’s the difference between a dove and a pigeon?

At the end of the trail we sat on the red rocks to rest. We were checked by some lizard.

And some crazy invisible grasshopper.

Golden Whistler (lat. Pachycephala pectoralis) and Grey Butcherbird (lat. Cracticus torquatus).

They say some trees can stay alive after burning it’s inside, but apparently not this one.

Like a bird from the era of dinosaurs.

Little Willie is defending it’s territory.

It got hot in the afternoon. We left Reda for a nap and went for a walk on the road with the hope to find some lizards.

We were not mistaken. This huge monitor was running away from us. But if only it would turn back to us and show some action, we would be scared to death and run 🙂

After a while we went back to brag about it to Reda. We came back, Reda is sitting with the big eyes and says “You never believe what just have happened!”

It appeared, that the same huge lizard was trying to get into our tent and later he got scared and ran away up to the tree.

The creature.

Later that day it was raining and little Variegated Fairy Wrens were taking a shower. At night in the shower we met same swallow again.

Flies getting a ride for free.