Lyle and I have spent the last five days in Apollo Bay, a town at the eastern end of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The area around here is known as the Otways. We have had a lot of fun exploring here.
On Saturday our adventure began with a drive through the Otway National Forest. The road was obscenely winding and impossibly narrow. Can you imagine our surprise when halfway along the track we came across a road sign which read, “Road Narrows.” We weren’t sure how this would even be possible! In spite of all this, the scenery was spectacular with tall, tall trees and very huge ferns. We were in the depths of a rain forest.
We emerged from the forested area to see rolling hills and wide expanses of green pasture land. I’m sure the grass was as green as it was because of all the more than usual rainfall. Lyle was impressed by the good condition of the cattle he saw grazing in the field.
Eventually we pulled into our destination - the Otway Fly Treetop Adventure. What a great place! I would highly recommend a visit here - provided that you are in fairly good physical condition and are not afraid of heights. Also, take a rain coat. After all, the tree walk is through a rain forest and you can certainly expect rain.
The strenuous part of the adventure wasn’t the 600 metre walk along the elevated metal catwalk, but rather the lengthy downhill slope and subsequent uphill climb leading to and from the walkway itself. Still, it was absolutely worthwhile.
The the trees were immense. We were 40 metres above ground level and I couldn’t even see the base of the trees. The trees still stretched high above us, some nearly 100 metres tall. Lyle said that the ferns on the ground were positively huge.
There are four pictures with this post. The first shows me about halfway down the trail to the tree walk. In the second I am standing beneath some of the tropical ferns. The third photo shows on the elevated metal tree top walk. The last is of the suspension of the tree walk.
This was definitely our best day in the Otways.
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| Sue on a path at Otway National Forest |
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| Sue on a path under ferns at Otway National Forest |
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| Sue on a metal walkway at Otway National Forest |
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| Suspension tree walk at Otway National Forest |
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