Poombeeyt Koontapool - Loch Ard Gorge Blowhole Lookout Poombeeyt Koontapool - Loch Ard Gorge Blowhole Lookout

There's a brand-new stop along the Great Ocean Road

This stunning new lookout at 'The Blowhole', near the Loch Ard Gorge on Keerray Woorroong Country, delivered with Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, is now complete and ready to welcome you.

The Loch Ard Precinct is a large, diverse landscape and coastal environment with multiple destinations and features of visitor interest.

The Victorian Government has invested $8 million to build a new lookout at 'The Blowhole', near the Loch Ard Gorge. The lookout provides a new visitor experience at this tucked away site, nestled amongst native vegetation.

This project is within the Port Campbell National Park on Keerray Woorroong Country, and the design of the lookout has been led by Eastern Maar community.

It is known as Poombeeyt Koontapool - meaning 'Breath of the Whale'.

Design of the lookout is informed by Koontapool, the Southern Right Whale. The seating near the blowhole are the callosities on Koontapool's head.

Each Koontapool have unique callosity patterning that identify individual whales. The lookout is subsumed in the landscape without impeding the symbolic breathing of Koontapool and is shaped to dramatically reveal the blowhole, amplify the atmosphere of sound and spray, and respect the environmental and cultural characteristics of the site.

❊ Address ❊

 ⊜  Poombeeyt Koontapool, Great Ocean Rd,  Port Campbell 3269 View Map




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