The Great Ocean Ecolodge @ COCCE
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At Cape Otway, early in the morning, the gum trees are ethereal, their white gnarled trunks floating in the mist. Then the still, silent dawn awakens to a thousand birds singing as the sun rises to another perfect day.
Spend time exploring the spectacular Great Ocean Walk, paddling in the shallows of secluded beaches and relaxing in the dappled shade of the eucalypts, watching the dozing koalas high in the branches above you. Escape to Cape Otway now ... just for a moment, with Australian Geographic.
Spring at Cape Otway is magical, the wildflowers are beginning to bloom and the tiny joeys are exploring the world beyond their mothers' pouches for the very first time. We would be delighted to welcome you for a special weekend of Opera in the Otways in October - have a look at our special Gumboots and Pearls weekend.
~ we do look forward to welcoming you soon.
With best wishes to all our guests and friends,
Lizzie and Shayne
Latest News
Well done Holly!
We congratulate Holly, our wonderful chef, on receiving a scholarship to continue her studies in Horticulture at Geelong's Gordon Institute and for winning the President's Medal. Holly has designed a superb organic vegetable garden at the Cape Otway Centre from which we harvest seasonal produce. Holly creates magnificent menus and dinners from the fresh fruits, herbs and vegetables. "I am very strong in my principles and values and tread lightly on the earth" said Holly. We are planning to develop a Sustainability Learning Centre and Holly will be leading kitchen garden classes. "I would like to help people to understand more about not only growing their own food but also knowing what to do with it."
Australian Geographic Society Conservation Award 2007
We are proud to share a fundamental underlying philosophy with the Australian Geographic Society – through our work we help people to maintain their link with the natural world, help them to feel ownership of Australia's landscapes, natural and cultural heritage, reunite them with it and sometimes introduce them to it for the very first time.
We are honoured to have been awarded the Conservation Award and are deeply grateful to the Australian Geographic Society for their support and encouragement. We look forward to working together for the future of Australia's natural heritage.
Victorian Identities
The Cape Otway Centre for Conservation Ecology has been featured as an icon of the Great Ocean Road. We feel so privileged to spend our lives in the beautiful wilderness of the Otways with magnificent beaches, secret rainforests, majestic trees and fascinating wildlife. And we are so pleased to share it with people from Australia and around the world so that this fragile ecology may be better understood, nurtured and protected for future generations to enjoy. We are proud to have been highlighted as one of Victoria's most special 'inside stories.'
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