Portland: Seals, Blowholes and ‘Petrified Forests’.

I travelled from Melbourne (ish) to Adelaide, along the Great Ocean Road. You can read about it, here and here. We then planned to turn off and head towards the Grampians for a day, but before we did that we travelled further along the coast through Port Fairy, Portland and Cape Bridgewater. This is the post about that day. I saw some seals. They were cool. I’d highly recommend that if you’re on a road trip of the Great Ocean Road, some of these detours are well worth it. Makes a sick change to the busy tourist rammed landmarks of the road, too.

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Portland: Seals, Blowholes and ‘Petrified Forests’.

At first we drove to Port Fairy where we got so lunch and went to the vintage sweetshop but there wasn’t much else we could do due to the downpour. The weather in Victoria is shit. Running back to the car we decided to drive onto Portland to see if the weather was any better over there. It was! After driving around for a bit watching people fish and whatnot we decided to take a short (or not) walk up Victoria’s highest cliff with the hope of seeing some seals. Here are a few pictures from the walk!

Bridgewater Bay Seal Colony

It was such a sick walk, regardless of the weather. I saw a couple of crabs, a few seals, hundreds of cows and a court (thanks google) of kangaroos. Pretty cool, eh? After the walk we drove further along the coast to Cape Bridgewater having no idea what, if anything, there would be to see. We weren’t dissapointed.

Cape Bridgewater Blowholes

Unfortunately the Blowholes weren’t working since the sea was too choppy. Still, the waves made for some freaking sick photography.

‘Petrified Forest’

It was believed that these beautiful structures were created by a forest of Moonah trees being covered by a Sand dune and then having their trunks decayed from the inside. Cool story, huh? Shame it’s wrong. These amazing structures are indeed solution pipes caused by chemicals and water. That’s why it’s called The Petrified Forest that isn’t. P.S. Geology is incredible and anyone who disagree’s can fu*k off.

Cape Bridgewater Wind farm

Some people argue that these turbines ruin the scenery, but I personally think they in some instances they add to it. Hopefully this picture can show that.

Have you ever visited this neck of the woods? What did you think? I’m going to release my personal guide to travelling the Great Ocean Road later this week, so if you’re interested, stay tuned.

Inabit.