see also:

• photography and camping main index page
• non-commercial camp grounds for tents 2-4 hours from Melbourne
• Aire River camp grounds
• Victoria's Otway Ranges and the Great Ocean Road
• Suggested short camping tours of Victoria's Otway Ranges and the Great Ocean Road

• the Johanna beach campground is a very short walk to a wild surf beach on the western part of Cape Otway near the Great Ocean Road (GOR)
• 25 camp sites run by Parks Vic and each require online booking and have drop toilets but no potable water nor showers
• online bookings

• just under 3hrs (227km) from NW suburbs via Geelong and Colac
  • if the Princes Fway is problematic, can also travel to Ballan then down to Colac but this adds 30min and 30km
• 42min (44km) west of Apollo Bay
• 17min (15km) SE of Lavers Hill
• 60min (70km) S of Colac
• 94min (89km) SW of Lorne

• Castle Cove Lookout
• Otway waterfalls:
  • Triplet Falls
  • Hopetoun Falls and Redwood forest
  • Beachamp Falls (nearby free campground)
• Otway Fly Treetop walk (commercial)
• Melba Gully glow worms at dusk, Lavers Hill
• 39min drive to Wreck Beach near Moonlight Heads - embedded anchor at low tide
• The Twelve Apostles

• Aire River camp grounds
• Cape Otway lighthouse
• Maits Rest rainforest walk
• Elliot River coastal area walk
• Apollo Bay beaches, cafes and shops

• 54min (53km) to Princetown Recreation Reserve (bookings)
• 66min (69km) to Port Campbell Recreation Reserve (bookings?)

• 22min (17km) SE to Aire River camp grounds
• 42min (44km) to commercial parks in Apollo Bay
• 46min (37km) to Blanket Bay camp ground, Cape Otway (Parks Vic online booking)
• Bimbi Park, Cape Otway - commercial
• 81min (76km) to Jamieson Creek camp ground Wye River (Park Web booking) just past Wye River which has commercial camp ground as well

• 31min (18km) to the small Aire River Crossing campsite
• 37min (37km) to Beauchamp Falls camp ground
• 60min (56km) to Dandos camp ground Otways
• 73min (66km) to Stevensons Falls camp ground Otways via Lavers Hill and Beech Forest

• 86min (82km) NW to Lake Elingamite near Cobden
• 2.5hrs 163km NW to Lake Bolac foreshore camp
• 3.5hrs to Halls Gap and The Grampians