Great Ocean Road/Otway National Park trip March 2011

[shelltree]

At the beginning of March, my partner Jason and I set out on a 10 day adventure along The Great Ocean Road and through the Otway National Park. We had an absolutely amazing time and only ended up with a few injuries from our photography shenanigans :P I have to say this was definitely my favourite holiday. Victoria is such an amazing place, I really didn't want to come home!

Anyway, here are the beginnings of a collection of captures from our trip. I took 43GB of photos and videos so it may take me awhile :D

But for now, here is what I've got organised so far.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6944365-1-in-another-place

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6949054-1-the-way-between-worlds

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6961032-1-split-point-lighthouse

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6966270-1-hopetoun-falls

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6977643-1-monoliths

(H, you may notice I nicked your use of the word monoliths from the post a pic thread, hope you don't mind :D)

Enjoy :)

Cheers,

Shelley

[Octane]

Shell,

You are so lucky you caught sunset at the Apostles. That is a stunner of an image.

Well done.

H

[shelltree]

Thanks H, I was pretty stoked when I saw this as we were walking down! We hadn't seen the sun once ALL day and for ten minutes out of the whole day, this amazing sunset happened. Couldn't have asked for more :D

Thanks for your comments H, they are wonderful as usual :)

[Octane]

Hey, you're a natural. :]

H

[shelltree]

:D :thanx:

[CometGuy]

No 2 and No 5 are real crackers. Wow!

Terry

[shelltree]

Thanks a bunch Terry! :D

[troypiggo]

They're all crackers. Well done. So jealous.

[iceman]

Lovely series. I'd love to do the great ocean rd again. Last time I did it was in 2005 and I just had a compact digital.

[mr bruess]

did you go up lighthouse?

[multiweb]

Great shots. My fave is #1. I really like the sky colors separation in it.

[shelltree]

Thanks Troy :D



You definitely should Mike! I knew it was going to be good but really had no idea til we got there just how unbelievably beautiful and chilled out it is there. And instead of paying 800 bucks to hire a car for 10 days we paid 600 for a campervan instead! I couldn't believe it! So definitely within the budget :D



Nah we didn't. It was very touristy and there was a lookout further down that had just as breathtaking views :)



Thanks Marc, really appreciate it :)

[Octane]

Campervans are the best. I've done the campervan thing over NZ. It's so easy and cheap and so much freedom.

H

[StephenM]

Great set Shelley! I'll have to try and get down there as well at some stage.

Cheers,
Stephen

[shelltree]

We plan on doing the campervan thing again at the end of the year, probably going for Tassie. And next year will be New Zealand :)



Definitely do Stephen, it was mind boggling just how beautiful it was! :) Thanks very much :D

And here are a couple more from the trip :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6982495-and-oceans

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/6991807-no-vessel-shall-contain-me

Cheers!

[gary]

Hi Shelley,

A beautiful portfolio. The sunset image is a knockout. :thumbsup:

Best Regards

Gary

[shelltree]

Thanks very much Gary, apologies for the extraordinarily late reply!

And here are some newbies from the trip :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7007626-aeons

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7042024-afternoon-glow

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7057802-honeycomb

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7088238-heavens-above

Cheers,

Shell :)

[shelltree]

And another ;)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7093216-sea-of-dreams

[shelltree]

And two more from Beauchamp Falls :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7128403-beauchamp-falls

http://www.redbubble.com/people/shelltree/art/7137120-a-perfect-place

Thanks for looking :D

Shell

[Octane]

Haha, those fallen logs are still there!

You beat me to posting mine.

Well done.

And, yes, how's the thighs after the walk back to the muddy carpark? ;)

H

[shelltree]

:lol: I was using my tripod to lever me up the hill and my partner asked "Want to stop for some water?", I said "No, if I stop now...that's it." :P

I'd still love to see yours H, for sure. Please post them :)

[Hagar]

Hi Shelley. Just noticed this post and had a look. What can I say...... Magnificent springs to mind.

I am so jealous of people like you and H. I don't have an artistic bone in this old body and I doubt I will grow any new ones now.

I love the way you can make such a wonderful highlight out of such a crappy sky. I have travelled the Great ocean road many times and just use it as another road to get somewhere.
Thanks to this wonderful collection I will now travel it and look upon it somewhat differently.

Thanks for sharing with me.

[shelltree]

Wow, thank you so much Doug, that really really means a lot :thanx: Comments like these are very inspirational and make me feel damn good so thank you! :D