Rough Guides: Great Ocean Road

“Are kangaroos a concern for motorists around here?”, I asked, only half-joking; having enjoyed my first face-to-face contact with Australia’s poster-boy only two days before, I wasn’t keen on the idea of going jumper-to-bumper with one. “Nah, not around this bit particularly, it’s wombats you wanna watch out for, especially at night. The tarmac stays warm after dark, they like that.”

Read the full feature on the Rough Guides website.

About Alasdair Baverstock

Freelance journalist and British Guild of Travel Writers member. Published in The Independent, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph and others. Author for Rough Guides.

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