Here is a review from one of our customers:
“On a sunny morning of october, I got into a Go West minibus in Melbourne for a Great Ocean Road day bus tour. The welcome in the bus was at once very cheerful with a sympathetic driver-guide, Matty, a typical australian man, cool and helpful, very competent. Inside the bus, we were a group of 14 tourists coming from the States, Canada, South Korea, Australia and France. Our guide shortly briefed us on the agenda of the day and we started off. After Geelong,, the second biggest town of the state of Victoria, well known for its famous “footy” team, we reached the Great Ocean Road proper. At Torquay, by the seaside, we were in the mecca for all the surfers in the world. The town hosts the Surfworld Museum and the first two leading wetsuit manufacturers : Quick Silver and Rip Curl. Seeing this big blue ocean, I couldn’t help recalling the sailing races around the world and the terrible roaring forties seas not so far off that shore. Completing these striking memories, we shortly stopped at Bells Beach, the very spot where the final scene of “Point Break”, the film, was shot. After that, we relaxed for a while listening to some good music tunes played on the bus stereo. All the way, the comments of our guide alternated with music, in a good balance. The journey went on with all these marvellous landscapes and small towns dotted along the road : Lorne with its forested hills facing well sheltered beaches; Apollo Bay, once a whaling station, offering a great choice of restaurants and resting areas where we stopped off for lunch; the Otway Park with its koalas and multicolored parrots not afraid at all of the tourists feeding them. To stroll among the impressive rainforest trees of the Maits Rest was an experience not to forget. The last leg along the seaside revealed magnificent scenery of gigantic rocks eroded by the sea like Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge and the Twelve Apostles. Then, we left the seaside road to go back to Melbourne that whe reached at night on scheduled time. It’s moving to think that the Great Ocean Road has been built by returned servicemen as a memorial to those killed in th First World War on the battlefields of France. I enjoyed this tour and won’t hesitate to try again Go West on my next stay in Australia.”
Jean-Claude from Paris, FRANCE.
Matty the guide around the Great Ocean Road
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