MELBOURNE September APUG outing!

[mrsmiggins]

So, any chance of a catch-up before Xmas?

An overnighter perhaps?

Absolutely. Time for some suggestions.
Eildon?

 

[LJH]

Absolutely. Time for some suggestions.
Eildon?

I'm up there tomorrow night, so happy to do a reckie!

 

[munz6869]

I'm game...

Marc!

 

[mrsmiggins]

I'm up there tomorrow night, so happy to do a reckie!

Skyline/Maintongoon Rd, Snobs Creek Falls, Devils River - all worth a visit. The Eildon-Jamieson Rd is a nice drive, but with limited viewing spots. One of my favourites is on the Mansfield-Woods Point Rd near Howqua.
Google: 2068-2120 C511 Macs Cove VIC 3723 ‎
/Frank...

 

[LJH]

I'm on an end-of-season trip, so hope the inside of the pub is photogenic!

(Really dont know the area well, so thanks for the tips. As I'll be up early with the cameras, I'll see if any if these are close).

 

[Wyno]

Yep, I'll be up for it now that I'm gonna be back.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

[...]One of my favourites is on the Mansfield-Woods Point Rd near Howqua.
Google: 2068-2120 C511 Macs Cove VIC 3723 ‎
/Frank...

I'll second that general environment for scenic value!

There are treats all around them thar hills.

Good too is the ever-photogenic ancient servo at Woods Point (there's a decent pub, too!). An adventurous but scenic drive to get there. Other places are the A1 Mine Settlement and Gaffneys Creek with their ancient, tiny two-roomed shingle cottages dotted throughout the lonely bush. People do live there (wouldn't be many now I imagine) and it's doubtless a very solitary and self-sufficing life, and utterly isolated to boot. By way of mention, I rode my touring bike from Mansfield to Walhalla (we caught a Harris diesel-electric train from Melbourne to Mansfield, something you just will not see in this day and age) in 1981 with cycling author Ray Peace over the Cup Day weekend at the time (written up in cycling rag "TROCHOS" as 'From Woods Point to Walhalla'): very rough mountain tracks, extreme gradients, heavy rain, ice, snow and slush (unsealed road through Walhalla until 1984). Wasn't keen to see it all again — and then, bravely or not, in the comparative comfort of my first car (a Sopwith Sigma!) in November 1994!

 

[LJH]

Just a quick update:

Saw my first, and possibly last, ever Moonbow* over the lake on Friday night. Amazing…

*Moonlight rainbow.