2000/02 Australia trip - Grampians |
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John found an interesting route for us into the Grampians, a dirt road through mainly open country, so we were able to see more kangaroos, emus, and wedge-tailed eagles. Of course, it helps to have a couple of people in the front car that can actually see well. There’d be an arm pointing out of the car and we’d stop and look, and still couldn’t see what was being pointed at unless it moved!
We bounced a few miles up the Bullawin Road towards the Chimney Pots before we met the Road Closed sign – a little earlier might have been more useful! So we took a long detour via the Glenelg River Road, which turned out to be largely a washboard, amazingly noisy with all the cutlery and plates and pots and pans beating each other to death.
We saw a variety of Victoria’s big fat lizards, stumpy-tails, one of which I unfortunately ran over, and a shingleback. We also set off into the forest following a family of emus. We didn’t catch up with them of course, but we felt very uneasy – the forest was tinder dry, it was hot and windy, and it smelled like the air was full of eucalyptus oil, ready to go off like a bomb. We passed up the Chimney Pots trail as it looked like a half-day hike, and followed the road up to a couple of lookouts in the mountains above Halls Gap.
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