Today was to be a road trip and walks day. The weather should be better …here is hoping !
The route was Healesville – Marysville- Warburton -Woori Yallock – Yarra Glen back to Toolangi.
It is a long route, especially considering that the roads are nearly all narrow and winding!
I only stopped in Healesville to grab a few groceries and a coffee and did a quick walk around. Quaint little town.
The drive between Healesville and Marysville is pretty epic ! And what took my breath away was the fact that there was still a bit of snow lying around in quiet a few spots. It’s a landscape that I’m not used to here in Aus and it looked great. Mind you, it was very cold, but looked superb !!!
The first place I spotted with snow I wanted to stop to take a photo and parked up next to a whole lot of cars. I only noticed, once I had parked, that they were all street racing cars …pick the odd Hilux out !! Hahahahaha. The youngsters driving them were all huddled together checking out each others wheels.
I was lucky in that the whole day there was only 2 people who drove behind me and who i let pass and then had the road myself.
I did stop by Steavonson Falls. A very quick walk to nice cascading waterfall. Lots of people though.
I wanted to stop by Camberville Historical Settlement and did. However, there were just a few info boards and nothing left of the settlement, which was disappointing. There was still snow on the ground which was cool…but then again no toilets …they were closed and I needed some bad !!
I also wanted to go and check out Victoria’s largest tree …just 1km track one way…but the track was very overgrown, muddy and dripping wet ! So I turned around and gave up on that !
With an urge to go to the toilet I high tailed it to Warburton …well…not quiet …but yeah.
It was packed with Melbournians , so I just used the toilet and went on my way !
On the way back home I stopped by Many Hands Winery which was very full, and so I made my way across the road to Levantine Hill Estate to check out their outdoor art sculptures , no wine tasting and then saw that Rochford did pizza and went over to have a pizza for late lunch / early dinner.
I thought I’d squeeze in one more winery …and picked the Italian themed Tokar.
Nice to be the only one in and rather than do I tasting I had a glass of mulled wine . That went down well! Also turned out that Mandy , the hostess , will be in Europe , in the same countries as me during the same time frame …so we might bump into one another again !
Back in camp, another cold night ahead I hopped into the tent to keep warm.
I must say it was probably this evening that I started not to feel great.
