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( 13 19 63;
www.parkweb.vic.gov.au
; sites from $20)
Blanket Bay is one of those 'secret' camping
grounds that Melburnians love to lay claim to discovering. It's serene (depending on your
neighbours) and the nearby beach is beautiful. It's not really a secret; in fact it's so popu-
lar during summer and Easter holidays that sites must be won by ballot (held August to
October).
Bimbi Park
(
CAMPGROUND
$
03-5237 9246;
www.bimbipark.com.au
;
90 Manna Gum Dr; unpowered/powered sites $20/30, dm $45, d cabins
$50-185; )
Down a dirt road 3km from the lighthouse is this character-filled caravan
park with bush sites, cabins, dorms and old-school caravans. It's good for families, with
plenty of wildlife, including koalas, horse rides ($45 per hour) and a rock-climbing wall.
Good use of water-saving initiatives.
Cape Otway Lightstation
(Cape Otway lighthouse; 03-5237 9240;
www.lightstation.com
; Lighthouse Rd; d from $250)
There is a range
of options at this windswept spot; you can book out the whole Head Lightkeeper's House
(sleeps 16), or the smaller Manager's House (sleeps two); prices are halved if you stay a
second night. Vans are also permitted to stay for $25, but you'll need to pay the admission
fee.
B&B
$$$
Great Ocean Ecolodge
LODGE
$$$
( 03-5237 9297;
www.greatoceanecolodge.com
; 635 Lighthouse Rd; r incl breakfast & activities from $370)
Reminiscent of a luxury African safari lodge, this mudbrick homestead stands among pas-
toral surrounds filled with wildlife. It's solar-powered, and rates go to the on-site
Centre for
Conservation
Ecology (
www.conservationecologycentre.org
)
. It also serves as an animal hospital for
local fauna, and has a captive tiger quoll breeding program, which you'll visit with an
ecologist on the dusk wildlife walk.
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Cape Otway to Port Campbell National Park
After Cape Otway, the Great Ocean Road levels out and enters the fertile Horden Vale
flats, returning briefly to the coast at tiny Glenaire. Six kilometres north of Glenaire, a
