{"id":649,"date":"2008-01-24T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/01\/24\/melbourne-and-the-great-ocean-road\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:52:53","slug":"melbourne-and-the-great-ocean-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/01\/24\/melbourne-and-the-great-ocean-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Tasmania I flew up to Melbourne and spent a few days there before hiring another car and travelling around a bit on my way to Sydney.<\/p>\n

Melbourne’s a pretty nice place, although accommodation was mostly full and very expensive because of the tennis<\/a>. It has good public transport and I liked the atmosphere, especially wandering around Queen Victoria Market<\/a>. While I was there I visited the Shrine of Remembrance<\/a>, St Kilda, the Old Melbourne Gaol<\/a> (which includes a former police station and courthouse) and the Melbourne Museum<\/a>.
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Once I picked up the hire car I quickly escaped Melbourne and headed for the Great Ocean Road<\/a>. The inland bits aren’t great but along the coast it’s beautiful — but busy — with plenty of laybys and car parks to stop and look at the view. I took some pictures at Loch Ard Gorge<\/a>, site of one of the shipwrecks this stretch of coast is notorious for. That night I stayed at the wonderful Bimbi Park campsite<\/a>, it’s all been recently refurbished and I had a nice little 4-bed bunkroom all to myself. The trees at the campsite are home to lots of koalas, which makes for good photos but not necessarily a good night’s sleep; excited koalas make pretty unpleasant screaming and grunting noises in the night.
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After the Great Ocean Road it was on to Ballarat, Bendigo and towards Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Tasmania I flew up to Melbourne and spent a few days there before hiring another car and travelling around a bit on my way to Sydney. Melbourne’s a pretty nice place, although accommodation was mostly full and very expensive because of the tennis. It has good public transport and I liked the atmosphere, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}