Welcome to Yvonne's Bed and Breakfast in Apollo Bay, near the Great Ocean Road and the Otway rainforests of Victoria, Australia.
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Yvonne's Bed and Breakfast is a family-friendly home. It was designed in the 1990s to be sustainable. It has a big lounge, dining room and kitchen to share; a player piano, TV and charming wood heater. We have a library, games and toys, bikes and two small dogs Che and Buzz, a gas BBQ and beach toys.
Your stay includes a continental breakfast.
New York suite - $200 per night (minimum booking - 2 nights)
spacious king-size bed with electric blankets; a small room with a trundle plus lovely ensuite shower and toilet
Madrid room - $100 per night (minimum booking - 2 nights)
comfortable queen-size bed with electric blankets and a trundle bed, shared bathroom and toilet with hand rails to assist disabled people
Apollo Bay is about three hour's drive from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road. Wild surf beaches are all along the coast. V-line bus stops at the tourist information centre on the foreshore. Yvonne's Bed & Breakfast is a block away from Apollo Bay's family-friendly beach and shops. Small airport at Marengo two kilometres west offers joy flights to the 12 Apostles. Apollo Bay's market is on every Saturday morning and the commercial fishing harbour offers fresh fish for sale. It's a short drive to rainforest, waterfalls, glow worms, farms, the Otway National Park and the historic Cape Otway lighthouse. We have unique creatures like the white goshawk, black snails and skirted tree ferns.
Rainforests predominate only on the protected southern slopes of the Otway ranges. They are three-tiered forests with wet leaf mulch and ferns at ground level, vines, shrubs and ferns and a closed tree canopy that protects them all from the sun. There are gum trees that are extremely tall, but the Otways' climax tree is the Myrtle Beech. You are lucky to find one with its dark green leaves like hard maiden-hair ferns and glorious mossy trunks. It is dying from introduced fungus and it will not grow after fire. Fires in our remnant rainforest have to be started by napalm and are used for many reasons. Fire changes the nature of Otway rainforest for hundreds of years, if not for ever.
Yvonne started Save the Otways in the early 80s and led public tours of legal clear-felling in old growth logging sites. She has been involved with forrestry issues ever since.
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