{"id":33,"date":"2011-05-10T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-12-23T01:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T01:33:58","slug":"my-trip-down-south-day-nine-8th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/2011\/05\/my-trip-down-south-day-nine-8th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"My trip down south – Day Nine. (8th May)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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St Mary’s Catholic Church, Hamilton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The Enchanted Forest, Cape Nelson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Cape Nelson Lightstation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The shoreline at Cape Nelson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Cape Nelson Lightstation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Some of the buildings at Cape Nelson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Wind farm at Cape Nelson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Bay of Martyrs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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This is the chopper I went up in…..<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Spectacular!!!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Me in the chopper!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Otway Fly – The height of these trees is amazing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Dinosaurs in the ancient fern gully<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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So lifelike…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Scary…..<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Pathway through the forest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The start of the Otway Fly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The Spiral Tower is 47m above the ground.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Treeferns way below….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The trees reach for the sky….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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View from the Sprial Tower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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The size of the trees is amazing!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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This little fellow was hiding in the treetops<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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Pretty boy….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

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After I visited this, I had a long drive to my motel in Geelong. The road to Geelong was interesting. The route I took started off with a very windy section through rainforest that seemed to go on forever. <\/div>\n
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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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}