Halls Gap, Australia
37° 6' S 142° 33' E
Jan 02, 2006 02:53
Distance 142km

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The Grampians, several times removed

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Don't you just love the colonial explorers' habit of appropriating perfectly good placenames instead of making up their own? Hence the Grampians, a set of basalt-ish "mountains" stuck in the middle of pastoral Victoria. Some explorer saw them, decided they looked a bit like the Scottish highlands, and the rest, as they say...

This is not to say they aren't rugged and impressive, though. After spending lunchtime looking round the visitor information centre, finding a campsite and setting up the tent, we drove most of the way up Mt William (the highest point of the range at about 1000m elevation), before parking and walking the rest of the way to the summit (a mere 2km - at what felt like a 30° incline). Got a great view over western Victoria and the rest of the range, spoilt only slightly by the air traffic control radar station that's been built on the top.

And then we walked back down, which was a lot easier!

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Our first (live) wild wallaby. (Actually my second, but Karen was driving at the time and didn't spot the first one, so it didn't count). It came to investigate our camp soon after we set up the tent, looking hopeful. The view northwards from the top of Mt. William (air traffic control station cunningly edited out!)
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