GREAT OCEAN ROAD

The entire serene and spectacular southwestern coast of Victoria, from Torquay east to Portland, is encompassed by the Great Ocean Road (GOR) region, though the road itself is just the 200km stretch that links Torquay to Warrnambool before being absorbed by the Princes Highway. The Victoria government, in tribute to Australians who died in World War I, commissioned the coastal highway with the intention of cre¬ating one of the world's greatest drives. By all accounts, they succeeded, carving a route that winds between misty temperate rainforests and the unearthly pillars, stone arches, and gorges sculpted by the Southern Ocean.

The 73km stretch from Anglesea to Apollo Bay is particularly striking, as the moist ocean winds confront the brooding forest barrier of the Otway Ranges.

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