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Saturday 14:30. Just back from a great few days away. I’d been thinking about this trip for a while and grabbed the chance this week. It was built around a mallee-wimmera (drier W & NW part of Victoria) walk in the huge Wyperfeld National Park.
The nearest large town – with supermarkets and accommodation – appears to be Warracknabeal. So I booked in there for 2 nights as it’s too far to do the whole trip to Wyperfeld from Melbourne in one day.
Day 1 Williamstown to Warracknabeal (via Clunes and Maryborough). ~300 km
Day 2 W’beal to Wyperfeld. 100km to the start of the National Park (!). So it’s about 400 km from Melbourne. Last time I did the Wyperfeld walk it was in summer and very hot. Sand dunes (with vegetation, not bare), emus, dried up lake beds. This time it was the same, BUT much cooler – being winter – and the smaller lakes held some water. And ZERO flies, compared to summer. Only 200 km today.
Day 3 W’beal to Warrnambool, via Horsham and Hamilton. The two ‘H’ towns were the venues for two most pleasant social catch-ups, then off to Warrnambool for the night. 300km day.
Day 4. W’bool back home but via Loch Ard Gorge near Port Campbell to see the recently collapsed arch. Then Colac and Inverleigh so I could pick up the new Geelong Ring Road (aka Bypass). Google Maps – below – doesn’t seem to know about this partially opened road. Another 300km+ day.
And speaking of Maps, here it is. It also had problems trying to show the route to Wyperfeld NP, but it’s north-west of Warracknabeal via Hopetoun.
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