The Great Ocean Walk - Devil's Kitchen to The Twelve Apostles - Day 8

Once again we woke early and were off on our last day's walking of the Great Ocean Walk. We left camp at 8.30am stopping to take in the views of Devil's Kitchen before heading West to the Twelve Apostles. The previous day saw many campers arriving making the camp site quite full. We were glad we got there just after lunch time as it seemed many people did not have bookings.

We had a beautiful clear sunny day ahead of us and it was quite warm. We headed west catching many glimpses of the coast as we walked along. We came across a wallaby on the track that hopped off as we approached it. The walk into Princetown was nice. There had been a lot of rain the week or two before we started and the river that flowed into Princetown and out into Bass Strait was quite full, especially given that the mouth of the Gellibrand River was closed to Bass Strait. We had lunch at Princetown, the picnic ground was flooded, Jason showed his great balancing skills by walking the length of the railing with out falling in.

The final stretch from Princetown to the Twelve Apostles was OK, not brilliant but not bad. Rounding a bend, out of the corner of his eye, Chis spotted a Blue Tongue lizard basking in the sun, he have himself a huge fright as he thought it was another Tiger Snake. The track twisted around and we were treated with ever looming monoliths in the ocean being the Twelve Apostles. At one point we saw some surfers that had been jet ski towed to their location.

We stopped at one lookout to encounter a group of Venturer who were doing their VA Expedition. They also remembered Barny from one of the caving trips that they had been on. It is a small world indeed.

Arriving at the Twelve Apostles centre - it was a disappointment. It was a huge touristy place with large coaches driving in and out with people, mainly over seas visitors, who would walk down to check out the look out, visit the tourist centre and "tick" it off their bucket list. Cam booked a helicopter ride and had a very different perspective of the coast line as only an aerial view can provide.

Our taxi from the Timboon Taxi service arrived to fairy us back to Apollo Bay. What took us 8 days to walk took about 2 hours to drive.

All in all we had a really great walk and we would certainly recommend it to anyone wanting to take in some typical ruggard Victoria Coast line and sensational forest walks.