Today we set out to explore The Grampians National Park, or at leas the parts nearby. Spectacular views define today’s adventures.
This adventure starts
April 8th
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To get our day started with rattled around Portland for a while, then got up high in a converted water tower, headed down to an 1880’s lighthouse, before being very disappointed halfway to our next night’s lodgings.
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Today we checked out a 90 meter wide waterfall, that’s about 100 yards Then we drove a couple of hours to get 30 meters or 100 ft, up in the air, no drone required, before spending most of the afternoon checking out the Great Ocean road.
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Today was mostly a travel doy, but we managed to stop in a a beautiful local park in Bendigo, Then on to the Great Stupa of Compassion and finally, we visited the largest intact remnant of the might box ironbark, that once covered 13% of Victoria before stopping Warnembool for the night.
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Off the ferry early, we were a long way into Victoria before the sun rose, In Shepparton we found the most amazing museum of everything that moves people, got a backstage look at a 10,000 piece costume collection, found some very artistic cows, before heading for the historic wharf at Echuca. Final stop of the day was 60 meter (200′) down a real gold mine!
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Philip Hodgetts and Gregory Clarke will be retracing a trip Philip took with his family as a boy, across to Adelaide, up through inland NSW and inland Queensland, to Cairns, and then down the East Coast of Australia via Brisbane, Newcastle and down around to Melbourne.
While it doesn’t exactly trace the original trip, it will give us a chance to explore an Australia we’ve never seen, with eyes freshly back from 24 years in the USA.
We’ll be looking for the weird, the tasty, the spectacular and the cute.