Great Ocean Road

I have just finished travelling from Melbourne to Adelaide (see map). Part of the journey included travelling along the Great Ocean Road. This road was built as a memorial to the Victorians (those from the state of Victoria) who died in WWI. They completed the road in 1919 and it is full of breath-taking views along the coast. Some of the road is extremely windy and steep which is why Mercedes Benz chooses to film some commercials there. Along the road, we stopped at Torque which is home to Ripcurl (these guys invented wet-suits) and Quicksilver (they invented board shorts aka boardies). Just out of Torque we saw several koala bears along the road. We were able to stop and get some cool pictures. Did you know those animals sleep about 19 hours/day?? The best part of the road is the 12 Apostles (see pic). These "apostles" used to be part of the actual land, but as the water pushed itself along the land, the land began to erode away leaving columns of land in the middle of the water. This process is still happening. Near the apostles is London Bridge, which is a smilar land formation but is more like a bridge than an apostle connecting the mainland with another piece of land. In 1990 the bridge of land actually collapesed into the ocean leaving a couple stranded on the new island of land. About 4 hours later a helicopter came to rescue them, but not before the media came out and put together the romantic story of the couple stuck on the island. Unfortunately, after the romantic story came out, it was discovered that the man had a wife back in Sydney...