Amazing Encounter On The Great Ocean Road! First Koala Sighting And 12 Apostles (Part 3) Australia🇦🇺

[@jamfernsjames8828]

Mado’s happiness is contagious!

[@angelinaveriic6437]

I've been binge watching all your videos.... you are both so lovely, beautiful couple... your content , enthusiasm and your journey just feels natural to watch and I feel like I'm there with you both.... I'm always looking forward for your next upload and experience....thank you for sharing ...luv you guys.... keep on keeping on...may all your dreams come true.... watching from Gold coast, Australia...👍💞🙏🌏

[@paulineryan579]

I love your enthusiasm and admiration for nature❤ You are a beautiful couple. Safe travels🙏

[@sirvex8750]

A lovely couple living their best life, so nice to see them enjoying Australia

[@DaleONeil]

I really enjoy hearing the joy in both of your voices and comments. So great to know you had such a wonderful experience. May it continue. 👍

[@louisaklimentos7583]

Lovely video and you look like you enjoyed your trip to the Great Ocean Road . I hope you get to visit the stunning Wilson’s Promontory and 90 mile beach which is 146km long . Thank you so much !

[@trubblemayka9045]

I'm so glad you guys are enjoying our country so much. The Great Ocean Road is one of my favourite travels. Spent a lot of school holidays camping and swimming along the Vic coast. Great memories. Now for a little bit of education. :P Koalas are marsupials, not bears, and are more closely related to kangaroos and wombats. The term "marsupial" comes from the Latin word marsupium, which means "pouch". Most female marsupials have a pouch where they raise their young. European settlers thought they looked like bears when they first arrived in Australia. Some early settlers referred to them as monkeys. Thank goodness that title didn't stick. 🤣 The word "koala" comes from the Dharug language of the Sydney basin and means "no drink." This refers to the fact that koalas get most of their water from the moisture in eucalyptus leaves. I'm looking forward to watching more of your adventures. ❤

[@aussiekit9172]

Please they are just Koala’s not Bears their closely related to the Wombat.. enjoying your travels and how you both enjoy the beauty of our stunning country. 😊🇦🇺

[@WiFiWombat]

Since you are correcting them allow me to correct you. Koalas in the sense you used doesn't have an apostrophe. Koala's indicates the koala owns something. The plural has no apostrophe.

[@Ravenwynterful]

I look forward to your adventures each day.....love your enthusiasm & great quality videos. Are they your drone shots?.... fantastic views 🙂. I live in Australia, but have not been to half the places you have!

[@mcshmurty8255]

If you love the beaches on the Great Ocean Road, then you'd be blown away by the sheer beauty of Wilsons Prom! I hope you get the chance to see it. It's the southernmost point of mainland Australia.

[@suzannekeil3170]

Apollo Bay one of my favourite spots beautiful place, beaches and mountains x

[@Christeky]

Thanks so much, Glen and Mado. Watching you guys enjoying your travels in Australia is very entertaining. So glad you were able to see koalas in the wild! The sunset views were absolutely amazing! Like Glen said: "Like another planet". Looking forward to the next instalment. Much love, Chris & Sophie. ❤

[@crazy-john]

Awesome videos guys thanks for sharing your experience in Australia ❤ But its Not A Koala Bear its a marsupial its a Koala.

[@maclen3340]

Started following you guys..Koala Bears!!..lol…luv the seamless batten change with the GoPro btw..👍

[@Preview43]

I used to live down there not far from the Apostles. My father and I used to regularly fish off London Bridge in the middle of the night right up until the night before it collapsed. Close call. Growing up along that coast line is one of the best memories I have. I'm regretting that I ever moved away.

[@GlenAndMado]

Wow such an amazing story and really cool that you could to experience that

[@Preview43]

@@GlenAndMado Standing out on that rock in the light of the full moon is something to experience

[@wmvaux]

I was at the Twelve Apostles in 2005 a couple of days before the big one collapsed. I thought to myself, how is that standing when the bottom was well washed away. And then I heard on the news a couple of days later it collapsed. Glad you're enjoying the trip along the great ocean road. There is also a waterfall on the right side wall after a heavy down pour which is amazing too if you can time that right.

[@philphil6006]

I cried when I saw the sunset. We are so lucky to live on a planet like this one. Make sure you go to Adelaide best food and wine in the country.

[@joycie014]

That’s a bold claim! I might give you the wine, but the food, is highly subjective. ☺️🥂❤️💚

[@meganfookes2026]

Thank you for sharing your adventures. Lovely part of Vic.

[@GlenAndMado]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@francinelynn334]

The wind can be very chilly along The Great Ocean Road. There is not any land between the Warrnambool and Antartica!

[@bethtaig]

Love watching your trip along the Great Ocean Road it’s spectacular place. I’ve been there many times. When you get to Warrnambool go to the Pertobe road park it’s amazing. We went every year with our families for 20 consecutive years. Go to Port Fairy it’s such a lovely small town .

[@annettefellows8418]

Hey guys hope you are having a great time. Looks like you are just doing the coast to Warnambool. Port Fairy is a very picturesque town on the coast. There are so many fantastic places to visit in Country victoria. Ballarat, Bendigo, Echuca and many more, so I hope you get to see some of those places as well. Same in every State. South Australia you have to see Coober Pedy. In Adelaide Waterfall Gully is beautiful and Cleland Park has koalas. Also amazing spots around the Adelaide hills as well as Harndorf which is a German town and Mt Lofty. And Glenelg beach and The Barossa Valley as well as Victor Harbour. Have fun on your adventures.

[@Joshua-jj4xn]

I appreciate my Irish man's genuine enthusiasm

[@GlenAndMado]

Hahah loving it all and taking it all in!

[@Evie170]

The pretty little koalas! Lovely to see a pair of them, keeping each other company, so they're not so lonely.

[@gavinfoster8607]

Thanks

[@DottyDotDitto]

5:30 I tripped over a Lowlands Copperhead while carrying and esky down a path to a camp site in Kennett River on a road trip back in 2013, it just nonchalantly slithered away. The drunk teenage bogans that left their fire going that night and nearly burnt down the campsite was way more dangerous.

[@DanielKing-dk5nr]

Hi Glen and Mado, ty again so much for this amazing video, loved every second of it, shared you on my twitter.

[@PatriciaMegna]

What a fantastic sunset.❤

[@JaneDoe-se8ku]

If you are anywhere near the Murray River, between Bearii & Cobram, there are a lot of Koala's along the river, mostly on The Vic side. I camp at a place called Morgans beach, it's free & you will see Koala's.

[@karenjoy7557]

Glen if U see stalls as fruit or egg stalls but some in the country U will find fruit or egg stalls but they are usually cash only so get a coun bag keep some money as U want go back to store eggs as they are very yellow taste fantastic... Butchers also may sell farm eggs also buy fresh meat from Butchers...U know it has been freshly cut and if U want thinker ones they will do it for U... Also need to tell Koala are drunk from the leaves that is why they are always asleep... Try a Vanilla Slice from a bakery or Lamington...with Jam and Cream through the middle...or Markets U will get fresh vegs and fruit...😊😊😊

[@gavinfoster8607]

Keep up the good work guys. We do love this country so much and seems you are too!!!

[@MrSlackers]

Been camping every year at skeens Creek next to apollo bay for 17 years straight. Love it there. Where the river meets the sea carnt get any better!

[@GlenAndMado]

thats insane! making some special memories then huh? do you pay for the camping site every time then? if so how much?

[@markduncan7638]

We did our Honeymoon down the Great Ocean Road, it's absolutely lovely down there, we stayed in Apollo Bay and did all our sightseeing from our Hotel there. We did not go to the Otways Lighthouse either, we felt it was too expensive for what it was so we did the same trail walk you guys did, funnily enough we had a great Koala encounter from 6 feet away, it climbed a tree to head hight and was completely unfazed by us so obviously used to tourists there haha. I moved here in 2006 from Inverness in Scotland and we live halfway between Melbourne and Geelong. Glad you guys are having such a great time :)

[@nineteen80seven66]

Your profile pic makes me think you live in Little River....

[@markduncan7638]

@@nineteen80seven66 No but I used to be there every weekend, dialed it down a bit as it was getting very expensive lol I am not far from there however.

[@helenmitchell6409]

Nice to hear your comments on how the coast reminds you of Ireland. My dad always said that our coastlines reminded him of his home in Donegal’s west cost. It’s lovely to hear your Dublin accent ☘️ The 12 Apostles is an awesome spot. Best wishes for a great tour!

[@GlenAndMado]

It’s pretty insane! I mean Australia is so big and diversified plenty of coast line to look like Ireland which is really cool! Makes me feel like at home at times 🙌 Donegal is such a beautiful county, one of my favourite places in Ireland! 🇮🇪

[@helenmitchell6409]

@ Aww thanks for the reply! Am enjoying your daily videos. Phillip Island is the most like Donegal. Lots of Irish people bought holiday homes there, including my family. Beautiful rough coastlines & quiet flat beaches for Mado too. The best place to see the little penguins too. 😊

[@krystleklearcentral]

If the choice of supermarket is between a IGA and a Foodworks, go for the IGA, the prices will be a little bit better.

[@LindsayBarker-vx8hw]

I’m not too concerned about you referring to Koalas as Koala bears, but in future if you’re looking for them, don’t look up, look down. Koalas sleep up to twenty hours a day, so to see something moving in the trees is like watching Pandas move! 🤣 However Koalas eat a lot of toxic gum leaves and so they produce a huge amount of droppings. Under trees that house koalas you will find a large amount of koala droppings, that fortunately only have a strong eucalyptus scent. Therefore always look down for droppings and then look up. Cheers guys, and enjoy Australia 🇦🇺

[@wayne8469]

But you missed Mariners lookout at Apollo Bay. Maybe next time ... just heaven.

[@poltoons]

LoL the number of people butt-hurt over you guys calling them bears. OK, they aren't bears, but your joy at seeing them is what really matters. What a great day you had, thanks for sharing!

[@tull0088]

To be fair, it's probably equal parts petty people getting butt hurt, and people genuinely wanting to be helpful and educate - tone is difficult to convey in a comment!

[@menotyew]

I could see before you got to the 12 Apostles you were rushing but I think you got there at the prime time as the sun was setting in the background. Oh what a fabulous site! And what a great day for you both seeing that waterfall, koalas, 12 Apostles & the beautiful beach & bush scenery 👏 The koalas in Australia & other mammals can be hard to see as they are mostly nocturnal. Also with koalas yes they eat only gum leaves but only from certain types of eucalyptus trees. A good reason why you aren’t seeing much of sunsets so far is because you’re only in the East of Australia & the sun sets in the West here & naturally ruses in the East unlike the Northern Hemisphere. You got a fabulous veiw of the sunset over the sea because you’re only in were just in the right southerly position to see it. The best sunsets IMO are in Western Australia’s west coast. East Coast you will see lovely sunrises more so. I’m loving this trip along the Great Ocean Road. The actual trip is longer than 3 hours so don’t be too hard on yourself. Who wants to speed along hours of winding road & see little of what’s actually there? Chill & enjoy what you can. You only live once!

[@paulineryan579]

@@menotyewI'm a Victorian and glad you're enjoying being here. Sunrises and sunsets are beautiful anywhere, but the best I've ever seen is near Uluru in the Northern Territory. Beats Santorini and all the international destinations I've visited.

[@Final_Cut_FF]

Great stuff. Enjoyed it.

[@65damdamdam]

I drove down to the lighthouse when it was closed as well. But on my way out I saw a tree with about 10 koalas in one tree. All down low. Just out of reach. You couldn’t get a better look even at a zoo. Funny thing is I didn’t notice any on the way in. Then once I saw one, I started seeing loads in every 5th tree.

[@TheLyds01]

If you are near Anglesea at some point, I recommend the chocolaterie icecreamery.

[@michaelsillis1841]

Loved the Apostles, although I had hypothermia from riding the motorbike through Cape Ottway. I put up my tent in Port Campbell, crawled in and passed out 🤪

[@achebwahs1111]

Right in the heart of God's country. I spent much of my youth roaming the beaches, rivers and hills of the Otways. My Grandfather was born in Lathers Hill in the 1920's not long after his parent's migrated from Ireland (Clare and Sligo). He was orphaned at 13 when they passed from an illness. He had to work the farms just for his keep. They were tough times, but he loved the Otways and now my folks live in his old home in Apollo Bay, which he named Kilkishin. For the record, technically you were no longer in Apollo Bay when you had a dip. That beach is part of Marengo. Enjoy your travels and God speed to you both.

[@AUmarcus]

IGA's and Foodworks are both good alternatives to Woolies and Coles and they tend to be located in the smaller towns.

[@travelgirl747]

So entertaining to watch you two. I did the helicopter ride over the 12 Apostles. So beautiful. Car camping is the best! Are you going north next?

[@vs123]

Beautiful locations

[@mikecassap]

Hi glen and mado as you travel around the coast enjoying or wildlife and beach’s please be careful when getting close to Whyalla and surrounding beach areas as it’s none fore the great white shark breading grounds I have fished there in my early teens

[@garthwaters5756]

just koalas lol they are not bears , they are marsupials 🤣

[@billy4eyes512]

You walked past the Aerogard at the little supermarket. It’ll help to repel some of those little flies. Roll on or spray on.

[@katkit123view]

I noticed the same. As a tip, Glen and Mado, Aerogard protects you against flies, sandflies, and mosquitoes. Get the tropical strength spray. 😊

[@xaj1543]

@@billy4eyes512 Oh come on, not everyone likes Aerogard!

[@katkit123view]

@@xaj1543it’s better than having flies on your face.

[@dcsc1]

You're so lucky, I've lived in Australia since 1996, travelled all over it and I still haven't had a decent spot of a koala in the wild! It's very sad, in our major 2020/21 fires, an estimated 3 billion wildlife species were decimated, that included a lot of koalas 😔

[@mickdundee2642]

Sorry but they’re not Koala bears just Koala’s…that term is really a touristy term that isn’t generally used by Australians…they are not bears but are in fact marsupials & only eat eucalyptus leaves from the tree… Apollo Beach is a magnificent place & my favourite along the coast there…

[@dcsc1]

The scientific name is actually just Koala, it's not even Aussie abbreviation. Not sure why the tourists call it a bear?

[@lindabourketempleton4040]

Cousin to wombat

[@lindabourketempleton4040]

I used to work at the 12 apostles

[@lindabourketempleton4040]

No drones allowed it’s a marine park and close to airport

[@lindabourketempleton4040]

Did you see the penguins?

[@inspyr1314]

lovely seeing you guys enjoy your trip in Australia 😄just wanted to also point out that at 6:24 and 7:14 you play the same clip twice, with the second time slightly cut to be shorter than the former

[@lesleyhughes3174]

Noticed that too. Think Glen was weary from his traveling. 😊

[@michaelmayo9048]

Yes expensive that far from Geelong or Melbourne. We always take own supplies /we just buy meat to use that day or next day as our esky is not a freezer but keeps ice up to 4 days.

[@no_triggerwarning9953]

The small black flies are looking for moisture to drink. This is why they swarm you on hot days when you’re sweating.

[@tonytutone2003]

At Port Campbell there are steps smugglers used to use. Ask the locals about it. Also. Ask them about the car park disappearing overnight

[@FredPilcher]

Oh please guys!! Koalas aren't bears - they're marsupials!! It gives us conniptions when people call them bears.!

[@TimAnnear_1961]

The Ocean Road is a magic journey.

[@paigelauryn4328]

With snakes, When walking out in the nature, it's really important to stomp/ have a heavy foot step as you walk, like literally stomp, this weather is when the snakes come out , because the hot weather warms their blood , and they are very active, also, baby venomous snakes are actually mote dangerous , any size is dangerous, but if a baby snake strikes, it's young and doesn't control its venom, so when it bites, it's more lethal, be careful and always stomp!! Send those vibrations through the ground, I grew up in the country

[@davidjohnpaul333]

I think there is nothing better than stops along the way - you never know what you may miss out on if you just keep going....

[@brianguy4333]

Love your journey

[@MelodyMan69]

Been waiting to see where you are in my Manor... Love seeing you both enjoying yourselves. Frustrated when I yell at the screen that you are so close to more experiences but turn the wrong way....😢

[@d.o.m.494]

I went down Gibson's steps before the concrete and handrails.

[@johnmcnulty1129]

Bare fact is :) Great vlog 🐨 🐨 🌻

[@JacowateHamaeran]

Loc ard gorge is off chops too

[@suejoemontebello1239]

They are not bears just Koalas 🥰🥰🥰🥰love watching your journey in my beautiful state

[@JayWhy1964]

I've had a beer everytime they call them bears, Christ I'm drunk now! 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulineryan579]

​@@JayWhy1964Hilarious!😂

[@paulineryan579]

😀👍

[@user-je6ng8ug7g]

Yep not Drop Bears either. These ones friendly. ( Look it up)

[@aperinich]

Came here to say that :)

[@Stoic_SunHounds]

I’m an Aussie and I share your excitement

[@hardyakka6200]

I can assure you Mado that while you were reading that sign regarding the snakes and blue tongue lizards that you were withing fifty foot of a tiger snake. They like those swamps they curl up in the grass and wait for prey. With a bit of determined effort and some dareing do you could have wandered through that long uncut to seek your prize.

[@lesleyhughes3174]

A hiccup on editing but hey Glen, you guys are gluttons for punishment. So busy. 😊👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@tonycurrie2964]

Hi Glen. The longer hair suits your mate 👍

[@GlenAndMado]

OH no way don't like the long hair hahah always get Mado to cut it

[@ellefitzpatrick6339]

Glen and Mado, please read up on the rip along the beaches in Australia. Sometimes when you think it’s safe and calm, that’s where a dangerous rip may be. I say this because I became a bit concerned when Mado said she likes it calm and we all want you both to be safe in the water. ❤

[@carolyntonkin4765]

Just Koala, they are not bears they are marsupials. We have all made that mistake in the past.😁

[@DanielleH-1Newzealand]

I love watching your Videos Australia is beautiful. could you please move your words at the bottom of the screen up higher so they can be seen?

[@mrt7121]

All those dead trees near Cape Otway are due to Koala overpopulation. They ate themselves out of house and home!!! 2 hours turning into 3 days on the Ocean road. You're lucky it didn't turn into a week! Sadly too many international tourists arrive in Australia in search of the three S's (Sun, Sand and Sydney) and never see what the rest of the country has to offer.

[@trentharris8380]

Should stop at start of great ocean road n look at the memorial arch history of who n wen was made ..

[@adamgarlepp]

Love your excitement .... buuut .......... they are Koalas not Koala Bears ......... genetically closer to humans than bears ......... Love your vids

[@hardyakka6200]

that ocean you keep jumping into is the Great Southern Ocean. nothing to do with the Atlantic. it goes from our shore to the shores of Antarctica. it is the only ocean on earth where the wind blowing from west to east doesn't;t get interrupted by any land mass. The old sail;ing ship coming to Australia rounded Cape of Good Hope track south till they found the roaring 40 winds and made good time to Port Phillip. So it is supposed to ber cold.

[@StephenKiely-y3j]

Can i ask have you been to the Blue Mountains yet in NSW just out of Sydney

[@lesleyhughes3174]

They have

[@boppermacca9346]

What a location to finish the video

[@DanielBatt]

I remember when two very good friends almost bought the Kennett River business. I don't know what went wrong, but they were in the 99th percentile of investors. They regretted it every day of their lives, and when the female partner of the man, who was the best-man at my wedding, died of cancer, this whole surf coast didn't provide amazing memories (which they certainly did), it was a perverse reason to never return to one of the most magical areas of Australia.

[@BillboBaggins]

If you are going to Warrnambool- -Middle island = penquins(A movie called Oddball was made there). -Tower Hill= Kangaroos Emu and koalas in main carpark.(It's an old volcano) Loans Beach Views and Whales(No whales this time of year. Port Fairy- Beautiful seaside town, good food. Call rm' Koala bears all you like. Tbh I don't think the koala's are pretentious enough to care.

[@petermcculloch4933]

This was filmed on the Melbourne Cup weekend

[@sparky5916]

where`s your seatbelt Mado??Naughty of u!!

[@RyderSontaig]

Where in the video was she not wearing her seatbelt? I think you're dreamin'.

[@asinstickyfingers8295]

@@RyderSontaig12.50 minute mark (Mado driving).

[@RyderSontaig]

@@asinstickyfingers8295 Nah, seatbelt is on. At first glance though it definitely doesn't look it.

[@AUmarcus]

No sorry, the Macquarie Lighthouse in Sydney's Vaucluse is the oldest lighthouse in Australia.

[@kettlebells-ez9xi]

15 20 years ago there were koalas everywhere along the great ocean road

[@GlenAndMado]

@@kettlebells-ez9xi unfortunately the fires killed 1/3 of them which is devastating and heartbreaking 😭

[@kettlebells-ez9xi]

@GlenAndMado and also chlamydia. Not sure what or who gave it to them lol

[@thomas-australia]

the eastern brown snake is also one of the most venomous in the world and above tiger snake on the list… be careful if you do see them!

[@eclecticapoetica]

It’s hard to find koalas during the day, they are nocturnal and spend most of the day sleeping! One of these was napping and the other one just woke up for a light snack. 🐨 🐨

[@louise7552]

Where's the footage of the little 🐨 koala on the ground under the tree ? They didn't come back to show us. 😢

[@SB-hk2lk]

I hope you were not speeding because I think there was a speed camera car near the apostles.

[@Ken-f1q]

Hopetoun pronounced Hope town.

[@colmastro4373]

Koala, NOT "Koala bear".

[@lynfletcher7744]

koalas not koala bear

[@pcoppleman]

An American golfer in the 80s commented as his sweaty back was black with bloody flies, are they damn national bird or something, jeez!

[@gordo191]

Wait to you hear a koala roar you will crap your pance they have the loudest voice 😮

[@jayr4857]

Don't worry about calling koala's, koala bear. It's all good . The term comes from the first European settlers who thought they looked like a bear. So the term has been around for a few hundred years. All cool. Hoped you enjoyed the great Ocean road. Safe travels, guys. 👍👍

[@dusanivanovic7043]

You will have to comment in one of your videos which state do you prefer ? Victoria or Sydney!

[@sladflob]

For a long time I wondered why the bloke was being so formal and calling the girl "madam" then I noticed the name of the channel...

[@annettebanks6022]

There is not 12 Apostles no more they have been crashing into the ocean. But they are still called the 12 apostles.

[@carolinel6236]

Big fine for not wearing a seat belt in the car

[@MaryParker-p2q]

Sunscreen?????

[@wallywombat164]

All rugged up for the cold. HAHAHAHAHA. You MUST be in Victoria. Koala what?

[@GlenAndMado]

It definitely wasn’t chilli at the time but things have changed here in Queensland 😂😂

[@wallywombat164]

How is the car going? I hope it's nice and comfortable to sleep in.

[@Raghnaid]

They're not bears!