Today was a day of sightseeing and adventure. It saw me leave Hamilton headed for Geelong. I drove to Portland from Hamilton and then to Cape Nelson. I stopped off at the Cape Nelson Lighthouse (or Lightstation) and had a look around.

St Mary’s Catholic Church, Hamilton

The Enchanted Forest, Cape Nelson

Cape Nelson Lightstation

The shoreline at Cape Nelson

Cape Nelson Lightstation

Some of the buildings at Cape Nelson

Wind farm at Cape Nelson

From Cape Nelson, I took the Great Ocean Rd. It had been suggested to me that the helicopter flights were good. So I kept an eye out for them. The trouble was they needed a minimum of two people before they would go up and I was on my own. So after I visited two companies, I came across a third that was very busy. They were able to fit me in with two other guys so I got to go on a flight past the Twelve Apostles. My luck was in. I was given a low level flight for the price of a high level.

Bay of Martyrs

This is the chopper I went up in…..

Spectacular!!!!

Me in the chopper!

After the helicopter flight, I went looking for the Otway Fly. This had also been suggested to me as something worthwhile to do. And as it turned out, it was. The Otway Fly is a 600m long walkway built 25m above the forest floor through the treetops in a cool temperate rainforest in the Otway Range. There is a fair walk through the rainforest before you get to the Fly.

Otway Fly – The height of these trees is amazing

Dinosaurs in the ancient fern gully

So lifelike…

Scary…..

Pathway through the forest

The start of the Otway Fly

The Spiral Tower is 47m above the ground.

Treeferns way below….

The trees reach for the sky….

View from the Sprial Tower

The size of the trees is amazing!

This little fellow was hiding in the treetops

Pretty boy….