Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 18:54
Certainly a great place to escape the heat some what being 5 to 15 degrees cooler in the hills over summer.
There are some nice free camps up the Buckland Valley that will give you access to the food & wine districts of
Bright, Milawa & Beechworth. Some old mining history about with excellent day drives to Mt Buffalo, Blue Rag, Mt Murray, Mt Hotham & Wonnangatta. There are some steep hills in the area to be careful on but most
places can be accessed by a more scenic route.
Bennies on the Rose river is probably the furtherest easily accessable
camp which allows a great drive up to
Lake Cobbler, Mt Speculation,
Craig's Hut, Wybonga Plateau,
Paradise falls, Lake William Hovell &
Powers Lookout.
Sheepyard flat on the Howqua river is another base from which to head to Mt Stirling, Mt Buller, Mt #3,
Bluff Hut, King Billy
lookout,
Bindaree falls & Mitchells flat along with a large number of old cattlemens huts.
Around near Jamieson there again are plenty of great camps along the River with plenty of
mining relics up to
Woods Point & lookouts from Mt Terrible & Mt Skene.
Over the Divide a stay at Erica or Rawson is in easy reach of the scenic railway into an excellent
mine tour at
Walhalla.
Camping around
Licola on the
Wellington river you can head up to the Pinnacals
lookout (the easy way) with great walks to Lake Tali Karng, Mt Howwit & Bryces Gorge to name a few.
Italian Flat above
Dargo is in reach of
Harrisons cut, The dogs Grave & the extensive mining areas of
Talbotville & Grant. The place comes alive over
Easter with it's famous Walnut festival.
An area also
well worth a vist is north of
Buchan (caves ) up to McKillops Bridge on the
Snowy river.
Heaps of other
places up there of course just a matter of linking them all together.
Cheers Craig..............
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