Tourism

  • RACV wants $25 million for highway

    THE $735-million upgrade of Colac district’s Princes Highway isn’t enough to ensure top-class safety, a road lobbyist has warned.

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  • Brewery toasts $100,000 expansion

    FORREST’S brewery is so successful that its owners are planning to move to a bigger site, in an upgrade that could create 20 jobs.

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  • Member for Corangamite Darren Cheeseman is leading a campaign to obtain World Heritage listing for the Great Ocean Road and Otways region. The Twelve Apostles, pictured, are one of Australias top tourist icons, but arent on the list.

    World Heritage push for Great Ocean Road

    OTWAYS tourism operators say a campaign to World Heritage list the Great Ocean Road must involve a funding push to improve the road’s “appalling” condition.

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  • Trail rider crashes into wire boobytrap

    COLAC police are investigating after a cyclist suffered concussion when he crashed into a near-invisible wire strung tightly across a Forrest bike trail.

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  • New bar and restaurant overlooking ocean

    APOLLO Bay will have about 15 new jobs on offer after civic leaders approved plans for a bar and restaurant with ocean views.

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  • Town preparing for 6000 riders

    THE Otways community of Gellibrand River remembers the “buzz” when 8100 cyclists and their crews rode into town 10 years ago and plans to re-create the celebration have started.

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  • Trail run will return

    ORGANISERS of Forrest’s first trail run hope to grow the event when it returns next year.

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  • Council launches Colac campaign

    COLAC’S first video advertising campaign since 2008 launched last night and will broadcast on television, on Melbourne buses, online and at Colac Otway Shire’s visitor centres.

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