{"id":759,"date":"2009-06-11T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-06-11T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:53:54","slug":"12-apostles-and-a-rain-forest-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2009\/06\/11\/12-apostles-and-a-rain-forest-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Apostles and a Rain Forest Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got up and continued our way down the great ocean road.\u00a0 As we left Apollo Bay the road took us further inland with only occasional glimpses of the ocean.\u00a0 We did stopped along the way and took a quick rain forest walk which was very cool.\u00a0 The trees were ginormous and everything was very green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-760\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0158.jpg\" alt=\"img_0158\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-761\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0161.jpg\" alt=\"img_0161\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-762\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0165.jpg\" alt=\"img_0165\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After our little hike we headed on down the road.\u00a0 We came across a sign at a cross road telling us of a winery only 27 K away.\u00a0 So we took the side road hoping to do a little wine tasting.\u00a0 Well after a little drive through farm country we found the winery to be closed.\u00a0 Since this is their fall many wineries seem to be closed.\u00a0 We really aren&#8217;t in wine country yet, so we still hope to get the chance for some tasting later in our trip.<\/p>\n<p>We headed back to the Great Ocean Road and ended up at the 12 apostles.\u00a0 These are some amazing rock formations out in the ocean.\u00a0 Lare towers of limestone that haven&#8217;t eroded away yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-763\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0168.jpg\" alt=\"img_0168\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0177.jpg\" alt=\"img_0177\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little ways down the road from here we came across &#8220;London Bridge&#8221; which definitely has fallen down.\u00a0 Rumor has it there used to be a viewing station out on it.\u00a0 A group of tourists had just walked out there when the land bridge collapsed behind them.\u00a0 They needed to be rescued off by helicopter.\u00a0 Needless to say there is no longer a look out station on there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-765\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0203.jpg\" alt=\"img_0203\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After our coast line viewing we hopped back on the Great Ocean Road and ended up here in Warnambool which is also on the coast.\u00a0 We walked down by the water at sunset.\u00a0 It is really amazing to see how clear the water is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-766\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2009\/06\/img_0235.jpg\" alt=\"img_0235\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>We are now heading back on the road.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;ll be heading to Portland from here.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping we can find a decent internet connection when we arrive there.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got up and continued our way down the great ocean road.\u00a0 As we left Apollo Bay the road took us further inland with only occasional glimpses of the ocean.\u00a0 We did stopped along the way and took a quick rain forest walk which was very cool.\u00a0 The trees were ginormous and everything was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}