nev
Super Térrarist
The BMW MCC VIc are holding their annual christmas camp for 6 nights at Bright, starting on boxing day. We only have the weekend and public holidays off work, so we could only stay there 2 nights. No other plans for Christmas day, so decided it would be a great day to head out to the hills and hit a few roads which Jo hadn't ridden before, and camp overnight somewhere on the way to Bright, so I devised the following route. Almost exactly 100km of sealed road followed by about 200km of almost all unsealed road... and none of the few few pubs and general stores we would pass would be open so we topped up with fuel in Healesville on the way out, knowing the next fuel would be in Jamieson Or Mansfield.
(It's worth noting, if you're navigating these roads, that both Woods Point and Dargo are shown in the wrong places on Google Maps, and you should refer to a real map to find out where these towns really exist)
For much of the morning we were riding through cloud in the hills and the temperatures were around 6C
on the Woods Point Road
9 Mile Road
visibility was quite limited.
There are often reported sightings in the Victorian bush of Panthers or other black cats. At one stage down near the Thompson dam, I rounded a corner to see what looked like a large black cat moving off the road and up a bank. I would think that whatever I saw could quite easily be mistaken for a big black cat, but from the angle I saw it, and the fact that it was headed directly away from me, it was impossible to identify, however my initial instinct told me that it wasn't moving as gracefully as a cat would... it was more doglike. The next day a dark wallaby crossed the road in front of me near Whitfield. I reckon it's possible/likely that whatever I saw might have actually been a wallaby... but who knows. Sorry,, it was way to quick for me. No pictures
We stopped for a picnic lunch in one of the picnic grounds near Thompson Dam. The dam level has risen slightly since the last time I took a photo here, about 18 months ago.
The road north of the dam is quite bumpy and narrow in places. Later in the afternoon I noticed the front section of one of my driving lights had bounced itself right out of the lamp base. Only a cheapie from Repco so no biggie.
Stopped at the grave of Kitty Cane
Hard to believe that a century and a half ago this was a busy throughfare between the goldfields of NE vic and the supply routes through Gippsland.
near Gaffney's creek
camped next to the Kevington Pub. Jo's busy cooking
(It's worth noting, if you're navigating these roads, that both Woods Point and Dargo are shown in the wrong places on Google Maps, and you should refer to a real map to find out where these towns really exist)
For much of the morning we were riding through cloud in the hills and the temperatures were around 6C
on the Woods Point Road
9 Mile Road
visibility was quite limited.
There are often reported sightings in the Victorian bush of Panthers or other black cats. At one stage down near the Thompson dam, I rounded a corner to see what looked like a large black cat moving off the road and up a bank. I would think that whatever I saw could quite easily be mistaken for a big black cat, but from the angle I saw it, and the fact that it was headed directly away from me, it was impossible to identify, however my initial instinct told me that it wasn't moving as gracefully as a cat would... it was more doglike. The next day a dark wallaby crossed the road in front of me near Whitfield. I reckon it's possible/likely that whatever I saw might have actually been a wallaby... but who knows. Sorry,, it was way to quick for me. No pictures
We stopped for a picnic lunch in one of the picnic grounds near Thompson Dam. The dam level has risen slightly since the last time I took a photo here, about 18 months ago.
The road north of the dam is quite bumpy and narrow in places. Later in the afternoon I noticed the front section of one of my driving lights had bounced itself right out of the lamp base. Only a cheapie from Repco so no biggie.
Stopped at the grave of Kitty Cane
Hard to believe that a century and a half ago this was a busy throughfare between the goldfields of NE vic and the supply routes through Gippsland.
near Gaffney's creek
camped next to the Kevington Pub. Jo's busy cooking
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