Great Coast Highway

We finally got to sleep in after waking up (it seemed) early the past few days. We checked out of the hotel around 9 and drove to a small cafe in Port Cambell overlooking the water where Megan got egg benedict and I got an enormous egg sausage and toast sandwich.


We then backtracked down the highway to see a few of the notable sandstone structures before turning around and heading back up towards Melbourne. We were on a fairly tight schedule so we would stop at each scenic area, jump out and walk to the cliffs to take a few pictures and then jump back in the car and drive off.


Since we were stopping at a bunch of touristy areas, the Australia government luckily kept us in mind and has a few signs up just for us.




We had asked at the hotel for some suggestions on the great highway for the trip back and the one we took up was checking out an elevated walk through the rainforest. The elevated section was about a half mile long or so and up as high as 150 feet. There was a 2 mile walking loop we followed which included the elevated section. On the way to the elevated section there was a dinosaur setup where I wasted no time asserting dominance on some velocirapters.

Megan had an unfortunate encounter with a T-rex however.

The elevated section turned out to be way more awesome than I expected. It was really long and much higher off the ground than I envisioned. What was also awesome was that the walkways are all mesh metal so you can see the ground beneath you. Especially when we got high up it was enough to cause us both some vertigo. There was a tower halfway through that took us up another 50 feet. Once we were at the top, it was high enough so that it swayed with the wind some and that freaked Megan out some but she was a trooper and boosted it still.

We finished our walk and drove back the remaining 4 hours or so to Melbourne. We got to the airport in plenty of time for our flight, which turned out to be delayed for a half hour. We grabbed a quick dinner in the airport and landed in Sydney around 10 pm. We spent a good 20/30 minutes trying to figure out if our Marriot hotel had a hotel shuttle (it didn't) and then avoided the shady shuttle driver to take a taxi into the city. By the time we got to our hotel we were pretty exhausted but made time to do laundry in the hotel's bathroom and use every single free space to hang clothes. We shot a quick email to our tour guide the next day confirming our pickup time (7:30 am ugh) and then went to sleep.