This was our much anticipated touring trip for some time now. It *should* have been longer, as I'm sure Venom and Dulagarl would agree.
For those that might know of the Wimmera River in Victoria you might thing it's not a lot of fun. Well what I've learnt about it in the last 9 months or so have blown me away, it's a river system that starts in the Mt Cole area that also takes water from the Grampians; it flows in a general north westerly direction before ending in a series of terminal lakes where it evaporates at some point, usually in the first or second lake these days. I'd love to see the last lake full, that'd be amazing!
To get the report underway, I'll start with these two pics - where we started and where we ended to show the contrast of the many different environments we travelled through on this trip.
Mt Cole:
Wirraglen Plain (got that right Dulagarl?)
We all arrived about an hour from the 1st to the last at the Ditchfield's camp in Mt Cole, as the first pic above. I'm glad I was there to represent the H4 subaru, seems we're being "inundated" by H6's!
Here's one of Ruby Scoo with 3 people and gear/food for 5 days:
This trip was aimed at following the Wimmera River as close as possible. We saw a few other things of interest along the way. Here's the start of the river, as close as we could get to it's very start without going bush bashing:
Here's the river later in Mt Cole:
We found the 37th Parallel near Joel Joel:
Here's a series of crossings on the Wimmera River, note the height of the debris from the floods last year:
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And people wonder why areas get closed down!
Good fun though.
