Warrnambool has nice beaches and good wild walks. It is a pleasing town too and it is the site of Deakin University, my old school so I have a good feeling for it. But I am not going to take you into the town this trip. I want to show you the beaches where I have had a lot of beautiful walks when we lived in Australia.
It is another trip best done by car as although there are buses and there was once a train (may be again - I haven't lived in Australia for a while now...) but when I did, the public transport links were scarce and a car was needed to get you to the places worth seeing.
Anyway, this is going to be very much a story in pictures and I am going to let the sea speak to you and tell the story for itself....
I couldn't decide which one of these photos to leave out. They look the same but yet, not really...
The textures are wonderful, the soft limestone weathers quickly and the landscape can change just as fast. There was a limestone bridge one evening near here and the next morning it had fallen into the sea, altering the iconic view for ever. The old postcards should be worth more now!
This last photo is a rather poignant memory, it is the last glimpse of the sea at Warrnambool before I left it and Australia for good.
If you find yourself in Melbourne or over the border in South Australia, make sure that you include Warrnambool in the itinerary. There are two ways to get to melbourne from mount Gambier in South Australia actually, inland or coastal. Take the slightly longer but far cooler coastal route and see the Great Ocean Road but allow plenty of time to stop and photograph. The journey from the South Australian border to melbourne takes roughly five hours, allow much more if you choose the coastal route. Worth every second though.
Words and Pictures (C) Debbie von Grabler-Crozier 2014, 2009
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