Pictures and albums about Port-campbell-national-park published in travel

We arrived at the Twelve Apostles shortly before dusk. The Twelve Apostles are irregularly-shaped columns of dolomite (a form of limestone) that rise out of the water just off the coast, left behind as the surrounding rock eroded. At the time they were christened the Twelve Apostles in the 1950s, there were only nine. One collapsed in 2005, leaving eight. The carpark for the Twelve Apostles, which are located in the eastern part of Port Campbell National Park, is on the far side of the Great Ocean Road, and they are reached via a pathway which passes under the Road. This photograph shows part of the retaining wall just on the ocean side of the underpass, built from the same stone as the Twelve Apostles. Known as the "Shipwreck Coast" in Victoria - for very good reason - the South Australian side of the border, all part of the same ancient sea bed, is known as the Limestone Coast. Slightly east of here is the entrance to Bass Strait, the treacherous body of water that separates the island state of Tasmania from mainland Australia: the western entrance to the Strait is only 90km wide - which sounds a lot, but if your ship's compass is off by only a tiny amount... There are seemingly-endless islands, islets and reefs all along this coast which, coupled with roaring southerly winds (straight up from Antarctica) spelled doom for more than 180 ships - the equivalent of more than one per kilometre of the Shipwreck Coast.