Topping up the tank in Exeter, the standard run through Batman Highway, East Arm Road, Dalrymple Road, Old Bangor Tram Road, Bangor Road, with a twist, a side rout via the Paling Track which I'd not taken before. Through Lilydale and up Whites Mill Road. Had tried to come up here in the mazda the day before, only it got a bit steep somewhere before E on the map and turned around. Not today! Powered the Terra up as far as I could go to where the Mt Arthur walking track starts at a boom gate. I've climbed Mt Arthur before, from the other side off Mountain Road, in the cloud and rain on a day worse than this one...
Nice little creek running under the bridge just past the boom gate
This is Forestry land, cleared a while back. Mt Arthur is up in the clouds there somewhere
I think this one is heading down the track off to the South from point E, after having turned around then coming to a seemingly dead end that could have gotten me through to the Goullees... oh well
From here it was a couple more dead ends and a back track down Whites Mill Road, couple more failed attempts up Barnards road, then a poke up Goullees itself. As you can see, I was probably within 500m of where I'd been not too long before. Seems this Forestry land is quite popular with some people as the local tip, as rubbish strewn in pockets off the track was an indication
Back down Goullees, and just when I got back onto the tar, I pulled up outside a place with a load of bizarre sculptures dotted throughout the front
That was it for the pics.
Now it was a hop over to Underwood and up over the pretty Brown Mountain Road to Karoola, burn back to Sidmouth and Rowella via Auld Kirk Road and home just after sunset.
I'll be in need of that first service shortly!