Walkers: Coralie, Marg, Janice, Michael and Mabel (leader)
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The walker’s camp at Cape Otway is hidden in the bushes not far from the lighthouse. As well as the usual 8 camp sites it also has a group site within the camp. A comment made by a fellow walker who had stayed there on the Friday night was the noise the koalas made during the night disturbed their sleep – the joys of bush camping!
From Cape Otway the track goes along the cliff top until the branch to Rainbow Falls. Rainbow Falls is a 3 km side trip and well worth doing. The falls are spring fed and there was quite a bit of water trickling over the moss covered rocks. The colour comes from the build up of minerals on the rock faces.
There are great coastal views all along this section of the track to Aire River. The walker’s camp again is in the shelter of the trees. We lived up to our “Porker” tradition and were even able to exchange ideas with a family group sharing the camp with us. Michael tried to add some fish to our meal but after a couple of hours without even a bite gave up.
It was an early wake up next morning with the birds starting before 5.00 am (I didn’t say we were up that early). The first few kilometres of the walk towards Castle Cove is through bush but then opens out to walk around the cliff face and offering superb views of Castle Cove and towards Moonlight Heads.
The walk finished with a kilometre or so along the beach to the car park. Michael, Coralie and Marg decided to walk a bit further by walking out to the Ocean Road while the car shuffle was going on.
A camping fee is being introduced on December 1st for the Great Ocean Walk. It will cost $20.00 per tent site per night plus a $5.00 processing administration fee per application.
Mabel
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