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Am doing the first family holiday with the wife and young kids in the car to drive from Adel - Melb via the Great Ocean Rd and back through Sovereign Hill.
Any lesser known things on the way? The kinda stuff only the locals would know about?
Mount Gambier - Pt Fairy - Port Campbell - Apollo Bay - Geelong - Melb - Ballarat - Halls Gap - Bordertown

Erskine Falls @ Lorne
The Otways Tree-Top Walk

Both worth a look. Kids will love the tree-top walk. The missus will hate it if she can't handle heights

Yeah am doing the tree top and Zip line.. obviously not the kids doin the zipline.
Will have to check out Erskine falls.. cheers quichey

visit Nelson, just over the border from Mt Gambier, lovely little town on the Glenelg river

godoubleblues wrote:visit Nelson, just over the border from Mt Gambier, lovely little town on the Glenelg river

Agree. We got some take away at Nelson and went for a little drive and found a spot on the Glenelg River to have lunch as we were doing our Great Ocean Road trip last year. Beautiful spot. I remember going on a family canoe trip down it when I was younger and was glad I visited again.

portland i thought was a nice joint
warrnambool - terrible
mt gambier and naracoorte have some caves
the chopper ride over the apostles is good on a sunny day


i hope they have finished the roadworks on the great ocean road, some sections were awfully slow

Princees Margret Rose (I think that's right) Caves near Donovans, between Mt Gambier & Nelson

Two words: Giant Koala

MadMax wrote:Am doing the first family holiday with the wife and young kids in the car to drive from Adel - Melb via the Great Ocean Rd and back through Sovereign Hill.
Any lesser known things on the way? The kinda stuff only the locals would know about?
Mount Gambier - Pt Fairy - Port Campbell - Apollo Bay - Geelong - Melb - Ballarat - Halls Gap - Bordertown

Theres a wildlife park just out of Halls gap now which is apparently very popular.

If your'e an RAA member don't forget you get discounted entry to Sovereign hill - and the Flagstaff Hill maratime village in Warrnambool, which also do a magic light show called Shipwrecked.

a world class sound and laser show where tragedy and triumph are relived in this sound and laser spectacular. An innovative aqua screen rises from the harbour and suddenly takes you aboard the Loch Ard on its treacherous voyage to Melbourne. Join Eva Charmichael and Tom Pearce as they survive one of
Australia’s most famous shipwrecks. It’s the voyage of a lifetime!

PM me if you want more details

sovereign hill - make sure you do the meal-light show at night

Is Kryall Castle still open?
Went to it as kids a few times, was pretty cool but last heard it was fairly run down

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:sovereign hill - make sure you do the meal-light show at night

and if you do the normal thing, be there when the gates open, last time we went there they kicked us out at closing time

Jim05 wrote:Is Kryall Castle still open?
Went to it as kids a few times, was pretty cool but last heard it was fairly run down

believe its still going, but got told it was fairly over-rated so we gave it a miss

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Is Kryall Castle still open?
Went to it as kids a few times, was pretty cool but last heard it was fairly run down

believe its still going, but got told it was fairly over-rated so we gave it a miss

Closed I think I heard, was fun 20 years ago and freaked me out a bit

Mr Beefy wrote:Two words: Giant Koala

two words RIP OFF

Going to Melbourne with the wife end of next week for our 2 year wedding anniversary / honeymoon we still haven't been on !!!

Staying at the Etihad Stadium end of Little Collins Street and haven't not been to Etihad for a game of AFL, will be going to the Sunday twilight game between Essendon and Port while the wife catches up with a girlfriend now living over there.

As the Anniversary present, my wife loves classical music and used to play the voilin so as a surprise, have booked tickets for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and will take her out for dinner somewhere nice as well.

Just looking forward to getting away for 4 or 5 days, can't wait.

dinner at Eureka Towers BP, i hear its sensational

Am also doing the Great Ocean Road drive between Xmas-New Year to get to Lorne for Falls Festival. The tree-top walk sounds good, will stop in at Nelson as well. We've got 11 days, so doing a couple of nights in Mt Gambier, a night in Pt Campbell, 2 in Lorne, 2 in Geelong, 2 in Ballarat and 2 in Halls Gap.

That's a good itinerary, Pag.

You'll enjoy it.

A last minute decision has my wife and I spending 4 nights along the Great Ocean Road over xmas/new year period.

One night in Warrnambool, two near Pt Campbell and final night in Torquay. Would have liked a night near Apollo Bay/Lorne but left bookings way too late.

Have done a bit of research the past few nights and it doesn’t look like we’ll have much problem filling the days. But regardless, does anybody have any DOs and DONTs for the region apart from the couple mentioned above?