A beautiful sunny day greeted us this morning. So we had breakfast and headed over to the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village taking the scenic route along the coast. A few stops for some pictures and some coffee were included along the way. The village is an impressive recreation of an early Australian port. A movie, a museum and a number of restored historic ships and buildings comprised this Village and told the tale of the dangerous nature of the Bass Strait (due to its rocky coastline) and the enormous number of casualties it claimed. Imagine spending 3 months on a ship crossing rough seas and then sinking with your destination in sight?!?
From here we turned inland to head to the Grampians National Park. These ranges are known for their diversity of wildlife, both plant and animal, as well as numerous waterfalls and unusual rock formations. It is also an area with a strong Aboriginal history. We entered through the south of the park at Dunkeld, enjoying another scenic route. Halls Gap was were we made our base for exploring this area. It is in Fyans Valley and close to the Wonderland Range, where we would do most of our bushwalking. When we arrived we found that our room was an individual cabin on a hillside facing a lawn full of kangaroos foraging for supper.
We still had some daylight, as daylight savings time had not ended here yet, so we decided to trek to pinnacle peak (this is where the picture of Matt in "Melbourne Preview" was taken). The first half of this hike was through grand canyon, a rushing stream through a narrow rock-way. It was quite pretty.
A beautiful sunny day greeted us this morning. So we had breakfast and headed over to the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village taking the scenic route along the coast. A few stops for some pictures and some coffee were included along the way. The village is an impressive recreation of an early Australian port. A movie, a museum and a number of restored historic ships and buildings comprised this Village and told the tale of the dangerous nature of the Bass Strait (due to its rocky coastline) and the enormous number of casualties it claimed. Imagine spending 3 months on a ship crossing rough seas and then sinking with your destination in sight?!?
From here we turned inland to head to the Grampians National Park. These ranges are known for their diversity of wildlife, both plant and animal, as well as numerous waterfalls and unusual rock formations. It is also an area with a strong Aboriginal history. We entered through the south of the park at Dunkeld, enjoying another scenic route. Halls Gap was were we made our base for exploring this area. It is in Fyans Valley and close to the Wonderland Range, where we would do most of our bushwalking. When we arrived we found that our room was an individual cabin on a hillside facing a lawn full of kangaroos foraging for supper.
We still had some daylight, as daylight savings time had not ended here yet, so we decided to trek to pinnacle peak (this is where the picture of Matt in "Melbourne Preview" was taken). The first half of this hike was through grand canyon, a rushing stream through a narrow rock-way. It was quite pretty.
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