Bushwalking
Bushwalking Around Marysville
The little town of Marysville is about 100 km NE of Melbourne. It was virtually wiped out in the bushfires of ‘Black Saturday’ in 2009. It’s slowly coming back, but I guess that only about half of the original number of houses have been rebuilt and there are still lots of vacant house lots throughout […]
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Bushwalking in the Grampians
I’ve just spent a few days in The Grampian Ranges bushwalking with my friend Bob. These rugged mountains are located to the northwest of Melbourne and are about 49,000 square kilometres in size. The national park there is one of Victoria’s largest. It has over 600km of roads, 200km of walking trails, colourful displays of […]
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Wilsons Promontory
Wilsons Promontory is named after Thomas Wilson, a merchant friend of Mathew Flinders, one of the early explorers of Australia’s coastline. We spent a very pleasant few days in the National Park to do some bushwalking. The ‘Prom’ has had a series of disasters over recent years. In 2009, most of the park was burnt […]
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SW Tasmania
It was with an air of anticipation that, along with four friends, I climbed into one of Par Avion’s small Britten Norman Islander aircraft to head to SW Tasmania. Having decided that we were too old to walk the long seven day route from Cockle Creek around the South Coast Track, we decided to fly […]
Read MoreBushwalking near Powelltown
We enjoyed having David home from Japan and with us over Christmas and the new year period. On one of the days that he was with us, we enjoyed a day of walking along the timber tramways near Powelltown. We left our car t the new Ada Tree Car Park and walked about 1.5 kms […]
Read MoreGoing Nowhere on Kosciuszko
On December 1st 2008, a group of six of us assembled at the bottom of the chairlift at Thredbo ready for a five day walk across the Main Kosciuszko Range. in the morning, the weather had been very overcast and the whole range looked to be well and truly clouded in. I was very reluctant […]
Read MoreA Walk Over the Top of Victoria
Bob Neil and I set out for a four day walk on the Bogong High Plains over April 7 – 10th. This area appealed to us at it is remote, scenic and flat! On our first day, we left the car near Pretty Valley Pondage and walked a little over 4 kilometres to Tawonga Huts. […]
Read MoreMustering Flat Walk
Over the weekend a small party of us went walking to one of our favourite nearby bushwalking sites – Mustering Flat which is on the Mt Baw Baw Plateau. We left from the St Gwinnear car park and followed the well defined track to the top of Mt St Gwinnear and then along the footpad […]
Read MoreTramways & Leeches
Thursday saw me having a free day, so Bob Neal & I spent a morning visiting the Ada Tree near Powelltown. This tree is a gigantic remnant of the old forest. It is about as tall as the MCG light towers and was once twice its current height (before the top fell off in a […]
Read MoreBrumbies on the High Plains
Over the New Year period, David & I undertook a four-day walk from Mt Hotham to the Bogong High Plains. The weather on the first day was very cold – 2 C degreees but on the third day it got to a very warm 27C degrees. We began by following the Brandy Creek Fire Trail […]
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