Hello, I'm a special writer in Muramura's micro-column: Ma Yan (Eric)
Shipwreck Coast Team, Port Campbell National Park, Parks Victoria National Park Manager, one.
Most of the visitors are believed to have travelled from Angelica (Anglesea) into Oceanic Road (Great Ocean Road), and the last westbound to the Twelve disciple (Twelve Apostles). So for many, the twelve can be regarded as the end of the ocean road trip. Today I would like to talk about the twelve disciples and some of the good places around them. The last issue mentioned that Ocean Road is 243km long, extending all the way from Tolcan (Torquay) to Andromeda Port (Port Fairy). On the west coast of Victoria. The 12 disciples should never be the end of the ocean road trip. On the contrary, the western section of ocean road is the most concentrated area of Australia's dairy industry, there are too many good-looking fun and delicious food, it is absolutely worth spending an extra day to satisfy their eyes and taste buds.
(Photo by Gao Yuqiang, shot by helicopter)
Located in the heart of the (Port Campbell National Park) location of the Port of Campbell National Park, the Twelve Rock is also the most famous landmark in the region, with countless hotels, restaurants and businesses around it.
The twelve usually look like this.
Of course, sometimes I can take you to Scotland in minutes.
These problems often occur while patrolling around the scenic spots:
"I count eleven pillars. Where is the other one?"
"are there four others washed down by (the waves)?"
The Twelve, in fact, never had a dozen.
The 12 disciples are defined as the stone pillars in the sea to the west of the castle rock, (Castle Rock), and there are only eight recorded. Since the collapse of one at 09:18 on July 3, 2005, there are only seven pillars in the middle of the sea. Let's show you what happened in a minute before and after the collapse:
The 12's coastline, also known as the limestone coast, was founded to preserve the limestone landscape of the coast. Limestone, a typical sedimentary rock, is formed by the accumulation and compression of marine remains in shallow waters. The limestone of the Port Campbell National Park was formed over the past 20 million years and was lifted up by crustal movement to form part of the coastline about 6, 000 years ago. The disciples we are now seeing are the remnants of the coast after being eroded by the sea wind and Rain Water, and imaginative students can use compressed biscuits to reproduce the whole process of erosion.
Let's take a look at some of the questions I've been asked so often:
1. If there are no twelve, why are they called twelve disciples?
After the free passage of Oceania Road in the 1950s, a large number of visitors began to pour in. Locals at the time also called the landscape sows and piglets ("Sow and Piglets"), both of which originated in local dialects, as did the two Gog & Magog pillars to the east of Castle Rock. This over-approachable naming was naturally unacceptable to the visitors, so it was later renamed "the Twelve disciples", derived from the allusions of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The "twelve" here is more of an imaginary number, do not fight. It's like a thousand horses, nine thousand horses left to ride, what are you doing, walking around?
2. Is it possible that there were actually twelve stone pillars in a certain historical period?
There may have been, after all, these disciples today are not eroded and left behind. Well, I guess there might have been twelve in Hongwu.
3. You are going to be prosecuted in our United States! You say twelve, but not twelve, false propaganda!
Oh ~
4. "I'm so disappointed." "Why, my old British aunt?" I thought the twelve disciples were the image of a disciple each engraved on each of the twelve stone pillars. "
People are dead almost 2000. Who knows what they look like. Besides, you know that environmental management in Australia does not allow man-made processing of the natural environment, right?
Since the park was set up in the 1960s, there have been few tourist facilities. In the last decade, wooden trestle roads, wheelchair ramps and parking lots have been built on a certain scale. This is completely in line with the concept of no village and no shop, no tap water, no gas, no power lines. (Kiosk) was a facility that took 4 million Australian dollars to build at the time, providing basic services such as free drinking pools, restrooms and the sale of coffee snacks.
Drinking water comes from towns in the north every day, electricity is powered by generators 24 hours a day, and there are many ponds behind the station, which is part of the sewage treatment facility. A portion of the water is recycled and reused to barely meet the needs of the day, and it can be said that every facility is overloaded every day. Taxpayers' money is not easy to get, but it should also be particularly economical. But there are too many visitors here, just to spend more than five figures a year on toilet paper, not to mention how difficult it is to recruit cleaners in such a remote place.
Traffic control during various holidays is a big expense every year. For example, parking staff who direct parking during the Spring Festival are paid for. Port Campbell National Park has some responsibility for Ocean Road, and if cars line up into the 12-disciple parking lot and cause congestion on Ocean Road, there will be a huge traffic hazard. Traffic jams on the highway require only one car to disembark in the wrong place in the parking lot. Managing a national park takes a lot of things to integrated up, especially for Australia's busiest national parks. Each Spring Festival busy season will hold multi-party meetings before the start of the Spring Festival. The Park Service, the police, the Road Bureau and the county goverment will sit together to study management challenges.
The recent busy period is fading away, but the tension in the team has not diminished. He worked ten hours a day until the last bus left the twelve-disciple parking lot. Sometimes people come here to find a lot of things to complain about, but also for the staff here. The seven Ranger have to deal with the problems caused by tens of thousands of people every day, whether it's Oceania Road, scenic spots or parking lots, and they don't charge a dime. We entered the business out of love for the natural environment and wanted to protect it so that countless generations could see the same beautiful scenery.
(sunburn a layer of skin every day)
About self-driving:
It's been the busiest time on Ocean Road these days. Almost 2 million visitors to Port Campbell National Park each year arrive around the Spring Festival. The twelve disciples I am in charge alone see 15000 people every day. Standing in the sun for six hours a day, coming home, dreaming of People Mountain People Sea..
Almost all domestic visitors came in a few years ago, and the number of self-driving tours began to increase in the past two years, as more and more domestic tourists began to choose Melbourne to rent their own cars, a transition reflected in data from all sides.
Of course, the increase in self-driving also means the growth of traffic safety problems. Recently I have seen a variety of strange driving behaviors on the road. (for example: the confused driver stops in the middle of the turntable because he doesn't know which way to make way; the brain returns to zero on the right lane after coming out of the hotel / parking lot; See the livestock strangely parked on the side of the highway / bridge / slope and then run down with the cow selfie; Call friends group a team walking on the ocean road, on the road when each other car distance 20 meters, 80 speed limit of 20 meters, the speed limit of 100 or 20 meters, the back want to overtake the car can not exceed. And brake throttle pedal together, brake lights on acceleration or the first time to see). The Road Bureau and the police patrol high-risk areas throughout the year to reduce the risk of traffic violations.
Other possible problems include lack of familiarity with Australian traffic regulations, lack of automotive knowledge and haunted kangaroos. Driving on the left is a real challenge for many overseas tourists. In addition to the "Drive on Left in Australia" logo, which is everywhere on Oceania Road, I have had a reverse drive across the street. One day at the beginning of his career, he copied a card in the twelve disciples' parking lot and saw a SUV parked in the middle of the road. In the past, the unleaded had been added to the rented diesel car, and the engine had been destroyed. There are a lot of details in the contract to rent a car, and this key must be examined carefully. In addition to the beautiful sea view on the ocean road is the body of kangaroo lying on the roadside in various positions. Roadkill is a major traffic problem in Australia, but the environment is too good for wild animals, a situation that can't be prevented from coming out everywhere. Two weeks ago, a large family of Chinese tourists rented three cars to drive from Melbourne to Adelaide, and the last hit a cross-street wallaby in a bend (the jungle kangaroo, one smaller than Kangaroo, the most common kangaroo on ocean road). The kangaroo got up and clapped the ash and jumped away. The collided car broke down the condenser and broke down directly in the twelve apostles' parking lot. The family took five hours to get into Port Fairy's car and lost a lot of money on trailers because they didn't buy a higher level of rental insurance.
(I have a little face, too)
In any case, driving yourself or visiting Oceanic Road is the most convenient choice. Because flexible, whether the itinerary arrangement or parking, meals and accommodation and other issues are relatively easy to solve, after all, their own decision is easy to say. World-class attractions are only half an hour nervous about taking pictures and driving without worrying about other tourists procrastination with their itinerary. It is recommended to set a two-day itinerary, neither tired nor tired. Stay at the second half of Ocean Road at night. Many tourists choose the (Port Campbell), of Campbell Port because it is very close to the 12 disciples and other scenic spots, so many tourists are of course relatively expensive. During the Spring Festival, tourists from home live here, and every morning they can see the elderly morning exercises by the beach. It is estimated that in a few years it will be possible to see a ballroom dance. At a disadvantage, the port of Campbell fits perfectly with the description of no village and no store, only a small supermarket that is better than nothing. So a 50-minute drive away is recommended for the regional hub of (Warrnambool), Victoria southwest, midsize city, supermarket restaurants (including Chinese restaurants), post offices and gyms. There will be more options to live here, including Ocean View Hotel in front of the marine protected area, as you know when you come out on Feb. 14.
(the lock that everyone hung up on was removed because it was not allowed to hang up.)
Here I offer a personal two-day trip to Oceanic Road: on the first day of the morning I had enough sleep to go out, and in the morning I went out of Melbourne to see the small town by the sea along the first half of Ocean Road. After lunch, you can go to the top of the tree and surf (Otway Treetop Fly Walk). Through the Grand Otway National Park. The so-called tree top surfing is to build a suspended trestle path above the temperate rainforest. From the top of the tree, the feeling of the towering trees is very different. Personally, I like this feeling very much. Most people choose to come here to understand the oxygen uptake of desaturation. People who like hiking and photography must not miss it. The rest of the afternoon on the first day was enough to travel from (Apollo Bay), Apollo Bay, to the western end of Ocean Road. The next day, after the rest, he drove slowly to the twelve, looking at the six main attractions along the way. Have a quick lunch at Campbell Port at noon, head north in the afternoon, and pass through some great places on the way back to Highway A1.
There are a lot of little-known good places to the west of Oceania Road, Australia's most concentrated dairy industry. Just 20 minutes from the 12 disciples' drive, there are just-opened ice cream shops, strawberry gardens, chocolate factories, vineyards, whisky wineries and three or four cheese workshops near (Timboon), the town of Tibou. Here is a large collection of gourmet maps, everyone to take what they need.
