The Ocean Road

The Ocean Road

The trip between Adelaide and Melbourne ( or vice versa) is one of Australia's most popular road trips. Along the way you will encounter a vast diversity of Australian landscapes, from wildlife heritage area of Kangaroo Island, the unique coastal ecosystems along the Coorong, rainforests in the Otways and spectacular limestone cliffs on the Great Ocean Road.
This site provides a complete guide to accommodation,sightseeing, entertainment, restaurants, pubs and the odd bit of history.

Travel between Melbourne and Adelaide (or vice Versa) is between 700 - 800 Kilometres ( depending on the route chosen) and is best done in about 3 days if you want to see the important sights
Features along the way include-:

• Two of Australia's"Top 10" tourist attractions
• Spectacular coastal scenery of the 12 Apostles
• Heritage listed wetlands of the Coorong
• Temperate Rain Forests of the Otways
• Australia's best wine regions including Coonawarra and Barossa
• All of Australia's unique flora and fauna in the Grampians
• Australia's best known surfing locations - Bells Beach - Torquay ect
• Towns and cities that shaped Australian history including Ballarat goldfields
• Typical Australian outback country around Kieth and Naracoorte
• Rich farming regions of the Western Districts of Victoria
  
  

The spectacular coastal scenery around the 12 Apostles is one of most recognised symbols of Australia and the coastal highway (The Great Ocean Road) is one of Australia's top 10 tourist destinations.
This web site incorporates The Great Ocean Road into a full accommodation and information planning guide covering the coastal and inland roads betweem Melbourne and Adelaide.

Many accommodation guides concentrate on "THe Great Ocean Road", which is loosely defined as the section between Torquay to Port Campbell - however there is far by doing this they mthe vast majority of travellers also continue there journey inland or continue along the coastal road between Melbourne and Adelaide.

This guide incorporates all of these destinations plus a number of alternate routes and as well some of Australia's most popular tourist destinations and also some of the countries best coastal scenery.
The road takes in a diverse array of eco systems, from rain forest to desert and everything in between, all within a distance of about 800 kilometres.