The drive to Bright was rather misty- which always sets a cool atmosphere. I didn’t find the town as amazing as I had heard from many people that it was. Even though I was there pretty early, it still only appears as a ski service town for Mt Buffalo. So I didn’t waste more time after my walk around and headed to the national park, where my first short walk was to Ladies Baths and the lower and upper view points of Eurobin Falls.
The Gorge Lookout & walk was a great one to do- the views over the valley and waterfall are breath-taking! The loop walk went to several lookouts. From many of these the chalet overlooks the whole valley and is a real pity that it hasn’t been operational for several years now. No one that takes over it can run it economically.
Le Souef Plateau has several walks that radiate out of the parking area. I decided to see how far I would get up the steep, uphill Sentinel and Castle hikes. I got to these rock formations fine- however couldn’t make it to Mahomet’s Tomb & Corral Peak as the ground/wetland was boggy and soft underfoot and I didn’t want to test the limits there.
Lady Luck was on my side and just that morning, the road to The Horn was opened up. This is the highest point in the park and is generally a downhill ski run in the winter. The walk up to the top is well formed but uphill all the way. It is also very busy with school holidays happening.
I was hoping to be able to stop and get some photos of the tobacco kilns around Myrtleford but unfortunately there wasn’t really a place to stop and always had traffic behind me. This old example speaks to the large tobacco industry in this area pre conversion to other crops such as vines.
The design remains the same, but steel rather than wood is used.
