Our Year Away from the U.S.A.: Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road. Wow, what can we say? It was incredible! Just to give you an idea of what we're talking about, the Great Ocean Road runs along the coast of South Australia and Victoria (between Adelaide and Melbourne) on the Southern Ocean. Yes, we are not that far away from Antarctica, at least closer than when we were in the US. We embarked on this journey during our long Easter weekend with two other guys, Scott and Justin, both from the Boston area. In Aussie land, we had Good Friday, Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday off...unbelievable. So we travelled the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne and back Thursday night - Monday afternoon.

First, we do have to show a random picture of Scott indulging in a rather large burger and a latte at 10 in the morning. That was a running joke throughout the trip.

The water is pretty rough out there, and in fact, countless shipwrecks have occurred along the coast during the time in which the world was racing to discover new land. The famous British Captain James Cook made his way along these waters but of course he survived. Since we travelled in April (fall weather in this part of the world), it was a little bit colder and extremely windy! Beautiful rock formations including the famous "12 Apostles" (but we think it's down to 6 now) are ever present along the road. Enjoy the pictures!