Loch Ard Gorge is your next amazing stop along the Great Ocean Road. From the air, this section of Shipwreck Coast looks like a zipper of inlets and promontories. This bluff forms a wall of the gorge as seen from Shipwreck Walk. About 640 vessels have met their demise along the 80 mile coastline. This location is named in memory of one of them. In 1878, the British three-mast vessel Loch Ard struck a reef at nearby Mutton Bird Island and sunk within minutes, killing 52 passengers and crew.
