Ended up being a great walk today. Didn’t start out the best – think the instructions and/or map were quite old. But recovered to be just excellent. Images – including 3D Google Earth view and Google Map links at end.
In summary:
- Start at Kalorama village, leave car
- Walk along ‘front’ of Mt Dandenong, but on tracks. Heading about S-W
- Visit the main Mt Dandenong summit area, including the cafe if you want
- Along the ‘front’ further to visit the cairn at the site of the 1938 “Kyeema” plane crash.
- Zig-zag down a track as the bush closes in and becomes more rain-forest in nature
- Pop out at the lovely Doongala homestead site (now a small park area with BBQs etc). Even though you are close to suburbia, the view from here implies you are in the middle of the bush. See photo (link below)
- Make your way back along the ‘front’ but now the other way (N-E) towards Kalorama and lower down on the mountain.
- A final climb (bit of puff puff here) and you literally pop back out right near the car
About 18-20 km of walking, from memory.
Here’s a Google Map of the approximate route.
And a few photos up there at Flickr.
<July 24th 2009>
Hi David
You didn’t waste any time altering your walk details from yesterday. Must admit the Glasgow Track section does look very impressive – now you know why Kerry and I chose to have a coffee and go back to our car via the Singleton Track! Nice talking to you yesterday – enjoy your walks.
Dianne and Kerry