No visit to the Port Campbell National Park is complete without gazing across the spectacular 12 Apostles, easily the park’s most famous landmark. This series of stunning rock formations seems to spring right out of the Southern Ocean, an amazing site that has locals and tourists alike trying to snag the best vantage point.
To access to the viewing platform from the carpark, we had to walk through an underpass to cross over to the other side of Great Ocean Road
As the most photographed coastal feature in Australia, the Twelve Apostles is a string of sandstone stacks which have managed to survive the pounding of the Southern Ocean.
Though The Twelve Apostles were formed thousands of years ago, the sea gradually erodes the soft limestone cliffs, and the coast is slowly changing. There are frequent small rock falls as well.
Most people know the number of Apostles is actually eight since one collapsed in 2005, but few known that there are five more limestone columns hidden 50 metres beneath the ocean 6 kilometres offshore. The sea stacks, thought to be up to 60,000 years old, were discovered during sonar mapping of Victoria’s southern coast.
As we walked to the end of the trail, we saw a sign stating a new lookout platform is currently being built. It is called the Saddle Lookout and estimated completion date is mid-2023.
After the recorded collapse on 3rd July 2005, the rest of the stacks will all collapse eventually, but no one knows when.
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