The London Bridge Rock Formation, or what is left of it. You used to be able to walk out across a linking archway before it collapsed back in 1990. I know because I did it when I was much younger. Hearing the story of the collapse made me a lot more careful about where I go now just to get a decent photo. Previously I just assumed all these dangerous events just happened during big storms and high seas but in this case two tourists actually got stranded out there then the first archway just disappeared. I bet it made a hell of a noise. The stranded tourists ended up having to be rescued by the police helicopter.
I took this photo from the beach of London Bridge before the collapse; it would have been in 1989. You can see three tourists standing right on the soon to fall archway. I think it would have been a rare day off for me, I was back in Melbourne after finishing my Electrical apprentice in Queensland working and working long hours and weekends on the Melbourne Central high rise building project.
This lookout is all part of the Port Cambell National Park along the great ocean road in Victoria a couple of hour drive from Melbourne. It is fun getting to revisit places which I have visited years before.
This is another old photo of mine from 1993. I had just finished working a ski season in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains and was driving around Australia with a couple of work friends in my car.
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London Bridge, Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
