Geelong & Beyond

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We visited Geelong where Kate has been working with a colleague at Deakin University. I spend a good deal of time tramping around the town and waterfront while Kate was working.

Geelong is on the west shore of Port Phillip Bay and is quite a good sized city -- not like Melbourne but a good size. Around the shore there's Cunningham Pier and a lot of parkland.  In the nearby Botanic Gardens there's some pictures I've taken of flying foxes. We first ran into these creatures in Brisbane where there's a large colony on an island in the river. Here I've taken some pictures of them roosting in the trees. You have to keep in mind they're called flying foxes because they're about the size of a fox!

Geelong was famous for fine merino wool, there's a wool museum I explored.

Afterwards, we drove south along the Great Ocean Road to visit The Apostles -- a famous formation of several large jagged rocks on the shore. On the way we spotted a Koala in the wild resting in a tree (we spotted him because a bus load had pulled over to take pictures).

We drove as far as Port Fairy and stayed over night. On the way back through the high country we explored the Grampians and tasted some wine -- Best's Great Western. A nice name choice.