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The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road is an extremely scenic highway that runs alongside the ocean (duh). We saw some WILD koalas and finished up at the 12 apostles at sunset -- made for some great pictures.

Seriously...how was this thing holding on! It's fast asleep and apparently not concerned for its safety.

This is one of the most dangerous coast lines in all of Australia. Don't let the clear skies fool you...this is an EXTREME rarity for this part of Australia. Normally these cliffs are socked-in solid with fog.

There is a famous story of a shipwreck where only two people (out of hundreds) survived a horrible storm. Their ship drifted too close to the shore but couldn't tell where they were due to thick fog. Too late they realized their mistake and crashed where only two young people survived and were found washed up on this beach. HE was 20 and SHE was 18. Both were single.

The local media tried to make a "Romeo and Juliet" story out of the couple, but after getting patched up they went their seperate ways and didn't see each other again for the rest of their lives.

The twelve apostles...so named for the number of land formations thrusting into the air seemingly from the middle of the ocean. These used to be connected to the main land; however, erosion has left only these columns.

This "bridge" will eventually become an apostle. Always a tourist spot, the LAST apostle to form actually had people on it when the "bridge portion" fell to the ocean! Luckily no one was hurt but the stranded people had to wait a number of hours for a helicopter to come rescue them.

And here is the actual apostle that the people were rescued off of!

Here is a pretty good picture to give you a sense of scale for the 12 apostles

This might be one of the best and my most favorite out of all the pictures I took the whole vacation.

posted by Team Shawn Michaels @ 8:49 p.m.