Sorry for the delay in posting this trip report - a lot has happened since this trip happened and I've only found the time now to post this up!
Subaruby Richard was in attendance as was my fiance Kez (for once!). We met up in the dark at the Blue Duck Inn and all had parma's. This pub is an awesome weather board place that's super old. It still doesn't have mains power! Crazy good food too, busy for a wednesday night considering the nearest town is 40kms away!
We headed off and decided to camp out at Joker's Flat. A couple of weeks before was the huge rain we had so everything was flowing well. This "helped" us out later in the trip
We got a fire going, setup camp and had a play with the cameras. Here's a long exposure of our campsite for the night next to the Mitta Mitta River by Subaruby:
The next day we headed down to Hinnomunjie Bridge - another old bridge, probably one of the oldest wooden bridge in Victoria if not the oldest! Axe marks can still be seen where the wood was shaped into what you see today. Crazy!
And the subi's parked up:
Next was a stop over in Omeo for a halfa while I got a spare tyre sorted for the 27's. Thanks to Richard for this one!
We headed to Cassilis where there's an amazing old mining site that a family own - loads of relics around the place! We did some hill climbs and had a look at the entrances of some of the horizontal shafts, these are still active when the owner feels the need to do some digging! Would love to have a tour through these but would need to know some locals who know some locals to get it sorted...
Here's Subaruby near the top of the climb, its nice and rocky and was very dry which was surprising:
Ruby Scoo and Subaruby at one of the mine shaft entrances:
We then headed off to one of the rockest tracks I've had Ruby Scoo over. Subaruby did it easy as well... This road I presume was built for the mining era. The rockiest section is along the road where a vertical 3m rock wall has been built for the road to be able to cross a steep section of the hill, the rocks are filling where there would have been gravel or some other smooth top over the rocks. As time has passed, the rocks have become exposed to what we see today:
We then headed back for a go at a track that is marked on the map as "Very Steep". We got this happy snap along the way:
I have some video of the climb but its still in its very un-edited stage. It took me a good 4 minutes to crawl up this hill in low 1st. EJ got hot too and the snow has killed my little aftermarket temp guage... Need more thermo fans! Subaruby had a section where she was starved of fuel due to evaporation, its a strange thing that I think Richard has sussed out now.
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