The Otway Fly Tree Top Walk - Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

Located at Cape Otway, around thirty minutes drive from the Otway Fly Tree Top Walk, the Cape Otway Light Station is the oldest surviving light station on the mainland of Australia. Rich with it's own history along with that of the ships, the shipwrecks, light keepers and their families, the light station is a never expiring, ever intriguing history of a way of life, so remote and removed from that which most of us know that the right light station story, told the right way, makes even the boldest of necks feel a little prickly and a cold shiver run down the spine.

The Cape Otway Lightstation

Nestled on the cliff-top between the meeting points of the rugged Bass Strait and the Great Southern Ocean, and the impenetrable Otway Rain Forest, the grounds of the light station are open daily to the public (entry fee applies) and include a drive into the light station along which koalas can regularly be spotted.

The grounds of the light station include the light house itself, but also the equally intriguing and historic ancillary buildings, including the light keepers residence and the telegraph station which was the earliest telegraph station connecting mainland Australia with Tasmania. Also, on site and recently restored for visitors to explore is the radar bunker, built during the second world war by the United States, after a German sea mine, was believed to have been the cause of a US ship sinking off the coast of Cape Otway.

In fact, at the Otway Fly we think the light station is so interesting that we offer a joint ticket off for adult visitors who wish to visit both the Otway Fly and then the Light Station, allowing you to save a few dollars off the entry price of both.

If you are staying in Apollo Bay, a great day trip is to visit the Otway Fly in the morning, via either the Great Ocean Road to Lavers Hill and then up to the Fly, or for the more adventurous, via Turtan's Track (unsealed roadway) off the Skene's Creek - Colac Road, and up to the Fly. At the Fly you can easily fill in the morning, with our Tree Top Walk experience which now has the bonus of letting you explore our new Prehistoric Path Dinosaur Walkway at ground level also, a look through the gift shop and coffee or lunch in our café. From there it is up to Lavers Hill to join back into the Great Ocean Road, and head back toward Apollo Bay which will take you straight past the turn off for the Cape Otway Light Station where you can spend another couple of hours.