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Sunset on Johanna Beach on the Great Ocean Road, Australia

The Great Ocean Road in Victoria is one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations, and rightly so. It travels along some of the most breathtaking coastline that I have ever seen. We took two days to drive the road so that we could make lots of stops along the way. We camped for the night at Johanna Beach, a free camping site that is very popular with backpackers and surfers, and the only campsite in the area that seems to allow dogs as it is located within a national park.

The flies here were pretty bad, so we spent most of our time down on the beach where we could avoid them. In the late afternoon we grabbed a couple of beers and found a nice vantage point up on top of some limestone rocks where I could set up my tripod to take some photos as the sunset in the west. It was certainly a beautiful sight. In this photo you can see a dog running along the beach to greet his owner who was just coming in from a session of surfing. I can see why they like this place.