Lavers Hill

Lavers Hill is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located 48 km from Port Campbell and Apollo Bay, 205 km away from Melbourne. The village is located north- west of Cape Otway on the Great Ocean Road tourist significant between Port Campbell and Apollo Bay and forms a further intersection of roads that lead to Cobden and Colac. 2006 were counted in Lavers Hill 208 sedentary inhabitants.

History

The name Lavers Hill comes from a settler from Gippsland, the large areas rodete around today Lavers Hill.

The area around Lavers Hill in 1891 and then for many years was explored used by the timber industry. The first sawmill was built in 1900, was followed by others. 1906 a school and a cheese factory were built and a railroad reached the area in 1912. The town grew and there was a post office, a hotel, farmers moved into the area and shops were established.

Today

Today are in Lavers Hill, a small commercial center that provides tourists a cafe, a bakery, a pub with bistro and tourist information. Tourism is the main source of income of the village.

The place is situated on the highest point of the Great Ocean Road where there are views into the surrounding nature him the Otway Ranges. Not far from Lavers Hill are the waterfalls Triplet Falls, Hopetoun Falls and Beauchamp Falls. The Otway National Park with its rain forests surrounding parts of the village. Furthermore, to call the trail Otway Fly, on which a 45 -meter high observation tower.

Twelve kilometers from Lavers Hill is the surf beach Johanna Beach. In Glenaire are profitable fishing grounds and there to provide opportunities for surfing.