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Giants of the Great Ocean Road
WAVES • ROCK • TIME
They are called the Twelve Apostles, so why can't Alaia count twelve? The answer is a story about waves, wind and an awful lot of patience.
📍 The Twelve Apostles • Victoria
The journey
- 🚗The coast roadOne of the most beautiful drives on Earth.
- 🪨Meet the stacksLimestone towers standing in the sea.
- 🌊Waves at workCaves become arches, arches become stacks.
- 🔭Count themThere were never actually twelve!
🤯 Amazing facts
- ✨The stacks are made of soft limestone that the Southern Ocean slowly eats away.
- ✨One stack collapsed in 2005 while people were watching.
- ✨New stacks are still forming — erosion never stops.
🧠 What did you discover?
What carves the rock stacks?
Were there ever exactly twelve apostles?