Originally planned as the Charlie McNamaras Hut trip, our Melbourne Cup weekend adventure encountered a change in plans due to the closure of the Dargo High Plains road. Quickly adapting, I decided to shift our base to Buckland Valley. On Friday night, we reached Beveridge’s Station, set up camp & Read more…
The Burgoynes track should be put down as an iconic track and a track that should be done in the Victorian High Country. Sandhurst has tried the track a couple of times, once coming in from Black Range side and the other from Mt Margaret side and we never made Read more…
Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary was one of the most Unique Outback Experiences. Located 600km from Adelaide and just north of the Flinders Ranges. Arkaroola had plenty of 4WDing on offer. With their many unique monuments, rugged terrain, towering mountains, granite rocks, gorges and waterholes. This Experience went for Nine days, what Read more…
Fred Fry was a Master Bushman and builder, he built his Riverside High Country home in the late 1930’s. Using split timber and his own style of workmanship, he built many Huts including Jamieson Hut, Ritchie’s Hut, Gardiner’s Hut, Noonan’s Hut and even helped with the build of Bluff Hut Read more…
Camped at Scotts Reserve just out of Woods Point named after Jack ‘Warrigul’ Scott. After moving to Woods Point when he was 16 years old in 1936, which he called home for 68 years before death in 2004. The town of Woods Point was wiped out by fires in 1939 Read more…
Over the Easter break we had a planned trip to Source the Start of the Murray, and find the Cairn 1 which is the point on the Victorian and New South Wales border. We had to get into Cowombat Flat, and we also knew that we had a walk in, Read more…
This was one trip that I have been wanting to do for awhile now, to climb up and over Mt Stirling. Mt Stirling sits up there at 1750m, with 360 degree views of the whole High Country. Now when we were up there, was it the beautiful views, or the Read more…
We are back, Out of lock down and I knew this trip was going to be a full one. We had 18 vehicles and I had to plan two trips this weekend a convoy of 10 and a convoy of 8. It wasn’t to hard finding a trip leader to Read more…
We originally intended to do the Simpson Desert, however due to COVID restrictions preventing access to SA, we have had to postpone the trip, and we ran a replacement trip covering the Victorian Mallee region. Leading up to the trip, it was uncertain whether it would go ahead, as Regional Read more…
Once again, our “not the official snow trip” had more snow than any trip we have organised. We are calling this trip a “Winter Wonderland” as we had snow down as low as 800m. We had 12 vehicles on this trip and members got to enjoy the snow covered tracks Read more…