Critters for Linda - Melbourne’s Great Ocean Eco Lodge

Linda is all about “critters”. It's only natural then that we'd spend time @ The Great Ocean Ecolodge and Conservation Ecology Centre . The GOE is Australians Shayne Neal and Lizzie Corke life’s work. We have a great respect for anyone who devotes their lives to nature and helping out the helpless as they have.

Shayne and Lizzie built a non-profit ecological research, conservation and wildlife rehabilitation centre. They are devoted to protecting and understanding Australian ecosystems.

The GOE only has 5 bedrooms. Your stay there is a personal, unique experience. You'll wake up to the sound & smells of the ocean, a chorus of birdsong and Kangaroos by the dozens playing in acres of grassland.

All profits created by GOE are put back into the Centre. These people, this place, their mission …it grounds us just knowing there are places and people like this sharing the planet with us.

Ahh, the dichotomy:

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. …

High Flight by Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941 …mid-air collision …age 19

Magee understood the pilot’s soul at a young age. What Shayne and Lizzie have built deeply touches our heart & souls. To get to them to personally experience the wonder of their world …that leaves a huge carbon footprint.

From YREN to YMML Little Bird drank 102.2 gallons (386 Liters) of Jet A. Today Jet A is selling in Melbourne at $3.87 per gallon. There is our dichotomy; from Renmark to Melbourne we left a $396 carbon footprint so that we may go enjoy & pay our respects to nature.