Euroa, Vic, Oct 2024

Day 4 Tuesday 8/10/2024 Euroa, 4 – 16 breezy

It’s nice to have a sleep in while Woody pounds the pavements and before we start chatting in the sun again.

After lunch we pile into 2 cars and act on the instructions of the rather insistent ladies at the Info centre. They say that we can see a third of the state from the local lookout and we daren’t  ignore their instructions. We take the Strathbogie Road up to Mt Wombat following a rather oddly worded mud map, we leave the bitumen and wind our way through the forest. We marvel at the amount of fallen timber that these days isn’t allowed to be cleared, where once upon a time folks would have been out here “goin’ wood’n” with chainsaws and trailers to grab the fallen limbs for their fires. Anyway, enough of politics, eventually we come to a rather steep concrete road that takes us to the top of the hill and yes, those ladies were right, we have a cracking 360◦ view of the state. Not surprisingly it’s used as a fire watching post and for communications towers and I notice a small tin shed that I’m pretty sure is a dunny with altitude.

We make our way back down the mountain (sorry Kiwis that’s a hill) and through more rolling farmland, home to sheep and horses. Strathbogie township is best described as a hamlet. A café, church and a school. Though the road is divided and in the median strip there is the obligatory war memorial and a concrete statue of a sheep! The big woolly ram was a gift from Japan in gratitude for the high quality of wool exported to them from this area.

A few kilometres up the road we jamb on the brakes at Polly McQuinn’s Weir a local swimming hole on the Seven Creeks waterway. This is a delightful picnic spot where the water drops over a small spillway before rolling over large and well-rounded granite boulders to a second lake. Wildflowers abound and we spot an echidna out for a stroll.

Back at camp Mother of Pearl arrives with little Pearl perched in the navigator’s seat, and we adjourn to the camp kitchen to polish off the scallop pies from Buck’s Bakery at Yarck.

Accom: $49.50