Great Ocean Road Day Tour from Melbourne: Twelve Apostles, Koalas & Coastal Walks

You step onto the coach at dawn in Melbourne; the city blinks away and the highway begins to unwind toward the ocean. Within an hour the urban grid softens into rolling farmland, then eucalyptus-scented hills, and finally the wind of the Southern Ocean—cold, bracing, insistent—starts to tap the windows. The day is a sequence of revelations: hairline cliffs broken by towering limestone stacks, a staircase hewn into sandstone that drops to a wind-scoured beach, and a sleepy seaside town where koalas cling to gum trees as if they own the morning.