{"id":24603,"date":"2011-03-21T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24603\/great-australia-road-trip-page-7\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24603\/great-australia-road-trip-page-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 8 – Thursday – September 23, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy, Rainy, Windy & Cold<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Kingston SE, South Australia, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 97435<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 2092 kilometers (1299 miles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Warnambool – $1.21.9 liter, 44.59 liters, $57.92; Millicent – $1.29.9 liter, 46.15 liters, $59.95<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Port Campbell to Warrnambool to Port Fairy to Portland to Heywood to Mt. Gambier to Millicent to Kingston SE<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 Today we traveled the last of The Great Ocean Road drive.\u00a0 The first lookout right after we left Port Campbell gave us a terrific view of the campground and the town of Port Campbell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It also gave us a view of a nice ocean rainbow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As we were walking back to The Beast, I spied a bird sitting on a tree branch close to the walkway.\u00a0 The Man passed by it and it didn\u2019t fly away.\u00a0 I walked up pretty close to it and it didn\u2019t fly away.\u00a0 I watched it sitting in that tree for a bit and it wasn\u2019t flying away, so I thought I would snap its photo.\u00a0 I got the lens cap off, turned the camera on, checked the settings, got it focused just right, pushed the shutter button halfway down, and just as I was about to finish the process, the darn thing flew away.\u00a0 Figures don\u2019t it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The next stop was the London Bridge and, just as the song says, London Bridge IS falling down.\u00a0 Before 1990, you could walk all the way out to the end.\u00a0 Then the first arch fell into the sea.\u00a0 Now the rest of it is an island.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Grotto was an interesting stop.\u00a0 You can\u2019t see anything of it as you walk along the walkway until you\u2019re right on top of it.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s really not much to look at.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Walk down the stairs and then you find the beauty of The Grotto.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a real big space but the view from inside is outstanding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The last stop was The Bay of Martyrs.\u00a0 We took the little walk from the parking area to the lookouts.\u00a0 As you walk down the path, you can\u2019t see much because of all the bushes, but then you come to an open spot, and all you can say is a whispered wow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We were finally able to call home by internet video for the first time today.\u00a0 We had to park at a McDonald’s in Warnambool to do it, but we made it through with no problem.\u00a0 Technology is just too cool when you can get a connection.\u00a0 Free internet access isn’t a thing the Australia travel service community readily provides and when they do, it seems we conveniently can’t connect because of some technical difficulty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the drive today was through farm and ranching areas.\u00a0 Nothing much to see but long stretches of flat green land or fields of pine trees.\u00a0 Somewhat boring after the views we have seen the last two days.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stops:\u00a0 The only stops we made today were for the last of The Great Ocean Road photo ops and to grab the internet connection from the McDonald\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Stayed:\u00a0 We called it a day early today and checked in at the Kingston Caravan Park in Kingston SE for $27.00 a night.\u00a0 It’s laundry time, we need more supplies, and we also need the time to chill a bit.\u00a0 The park is right across the street from the bay and the view is lovely.\u00a0 If the weather was nicer, a walk on the beach may have been in order.\u00a0 Instead we did the grocery shopping.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 We had dinner in The Beast.\u00a0 I made a tortellini and vegetable soup and while it was cooking we started with some Bega Tasty cheese and water crackers.\u00a0 I think I could get hooked on that cheese and I don\u2019t even like cheese.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 8 – Thursday – September 23, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy, Rainy, Windy & Cold Destination:\u00a0 Kingston SE, South Australia, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 97435 Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 2092 kilometers (1299 miles) Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Warnambool – $1.21.9 liter, 44.59 liters, $57.92; Millicent – $1.29.9 liter, 46.15 liters, $59.95 Route Taken:\u00a0 Port Campbell to Warrnambool to Port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,42,25],"tags":[651,2620,2703,2432,2431,2704],"class_list":["post-24603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-other","category-photography","category-world","tag-australia","tag-great-ocean-road","tag-kingston","tag-motorhome","tag-road-trip","tag-scenery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116517,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603\/revisions\/116517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}