Our road trip to the Victorian High Country continues, with next leg of the odyssey covering the spectacular Great Ocean Road (GOR) where waves of the Southern Ocean pound into towering cliffs along Victoria’s coastline.
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50,000 years of history in Outback NSW
For a while now we’ve been planning a trip to the Victorian High Country, Australia’s alpine area steeped in modern legends of wild brumbies and mountain cattlemen. To get there we chose a a loop to pick up a few places on our to-do list, heading south west into the depths of outback NSW and finishing at Mungo National Park where some of the oldest remains of homo sapiens in Australia and the workd have been found.
A trip under the mulga – Thrushton National Park
I was particularly keen to visit Thrushton after stumbling across excerpts from a book “Under the mulga” written by Jim Gasteen, whose parents founded the original property and who grew up on the place until it was no longer viable. Its a fascinating read that describes pioneer life in a tough and unforgiving part of the country, and the brilliant detail set out by the author had me wanting to see it for myself to add life to his tales.
A gold rush tale – Monal mine ruins
After visiting the Beautiful Betsy Liberator plane crash site (see previous blog) I continued to explore the area and went in search of the old Monal gold mining town ruins