Wilsons Promontory is a very popular 3-4 day hike in Victoria, Australia. This great circuit bushwalk leads you to isolated beaches, spectacular scenery and excellent facilities. A must do adventure near Melbourne at the Wilsons Promontory National Park.
We have a “secret” National Park camping ground we escape to each summer for a week or two “bush” camping.
As you can see from the pictures below this is NOT lightweight camping and we take everything including the kitchen sink, dish rack and a full cutlery and crockery set.
It is camping on a grand scale.
Frank has just returned and thought he would share a few pictures of this great holiday spot that is near the Great Ocean Walk in southern Victoria, Australia.
Sorry about the quality of the images, we left our camera at home and had to use an iPhone!…
The Great South West Walk third section is from Discovery Bay to Mount Richmond and Tarragal Camp.
If you like beach walking, sand and sand dunes this section is for you!
If you hate march flies, be prepared…..
In his third guest post, Dave Tomlinson shares some great information about this section of the GSWW. You can check out the map here
Dave’s footprints, Discovery Bay – soft sand makes for hard walking
The Discovery Bay Coastal Park begins at Nelson and extends virtually all the way along the coast to Portland. It is recommended to walk the direction I did because the sun and prevailing wind is generally behind you. However when I came through the dunes at Ocean …
Many thanks to Jacq for this trip report on a overnight walk into the Billywing Gorge of the Grampians in Victoria. Jacq has kindly let us reproduce an email she sent to a friend who did not make the trip. We also could not make it, and after reading Jacq’s notes, are quite happy about spending the weekend at home.
The plan was to find a “hidden cave” , know as the Goat Cave and camp there overnight. Below is the “Goat Cave”
What you missed out on over the weekend:
About 6:30 Friday night it started to drizzle, then progressively pour, so by the time we reached Dunkeld at 8:00 it was consistent drenching rain. Being the brave souls …
While not purely hiking related, our annual summer holiday to Blanket Bay provides us with a great relaxing experience and the chance to be very comfortable for a week’s base camping. We recently posted about base camping compared to hiking before the holiday.
Blanket Bay is the second camping area on the Great Ocean Walk, so we had the opportunity to meet several hikers, and enjoy their company. The number of walkers travelling through seemed quite small (maybe 2-5 per night) Several of them were on supported walks where they had their food and gear delivered to each campsite by Abby of GOR Shuttle. This meant they only had to walk each day with a day pack.
We know …
