GIBSON STEPS
OCEAN CLIFF FACE
port campbell NATIONAL PARK, VICTORIA
THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT? GO ON, GIVE IT A GO… THE REWARDS ARE SPECTACULAR!
THE 86 STEPS DOWN YOU WON’T EVEN REMEMBER AFTER YOU FEEL THE DRAMATIC VIEW FROM THE SHORELINE
Be dwarfed by the 70-metre high vertical cliffs & marvel at Gog and Magog, the nicknames given to the giant limestone stacks rising up out of the sea.
Make your way down to the beach (weather conditions permitting) on steps carved into the face of the cliff by local farm settler/pioneer Hugh Gibson, who built nearby Glenample Homestead & regularly used the carved steps to access the beach below. He worked on the route originally used by the Kirrae Whurrong First Nations people.
Today, thankfully, the steps are concreted with hand rails to make the journey a touch easier on us. Imagine collecting your goods delived by ship from down there!
HISTORY OF THE gibson steps & GLENAMPLE HOMESTEAD
Our detailed info page on Gibson Steps is PASSWORD PROTECTED for our day trip virtual tour in other languages, please speak to your tour Guide on your tour day for access
references & photo credits; Australian Government & Visit Victoria,
visit the gibson steps to walk down the cliff to the beach for an unforgetable view on our tour to the 12 apostles
Before you say to me ‘no way!’ just take in the grandeur from the top lookout, its spectacular enough to stay there & listen to the crashing waves…
but if you look over & think you can give those stairs a go then a magical experience awaits you at the ocean floor after conquering the cliff-face steps - I promise you won’t regret it, no one has on my tours so far as I make sure that if you’ve possibly got it in you then go for it, its not a race back up just hold the rail & let others overtake you no stress!
Of course there is always a few that fly out the bus & down the stairs before I can even warn them to be careful of the waves when taking photos… this strong shore can catch you unaware & has claimed handbags that were put down to take a selfie… eek!
And then there are some others, who wander off to take photos of the seagulls & sheep in the paddock behind… each to their own as we say!