“The Great Ocean Road” Gapostol’s photos around Warrnambool, Australia (wind farm next to a road)
Admin | June 19, 2011
Preview of Gapostol’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Warrnambool, Australia Entry Title: “The Great Ocean Road” Entry: “Our next major destination after KI was the Great Ocean Road, one of the most scenic drives in the world. The road more or less follows the coast of the Southern Ocean for several hundred kilometers and, while aware of its magnificence, we were planning on finishing it and getting to Melbourne in two days. Well, we finally got to Melbourne after 5 days on the road, exhausted, with sensorial overload from the beautiful scenery and several hundred pictures from all the interesting sites we’ve encountered on our way. Every little town we’ve been through had something interesting to offer: a beautiful rose garden, a charming historical downtown, a special museum, an isolated beach or just spectacular views of the weather-battered coast. We are not able to describe all the places we’ve stopped to (the drive to Canberra is way too short), but will do our best listing the highlights. The first interesting site we’ve seen on the Great Ocean Road was actually on land: a huge wind farm close to Millicent, South Australia. This is supposed to be the largest wind farm in Australia and had well over 200 wind turbines, enough to power several tens of thousands households for one year. And we can testify to the huge potential these wind …