More recent Travel

 The major National Park near Yarram is Tarra-Bulga in the Strzlecki Ranges.  Polly, the phone version of Google Maps GPS system, initially sent us on an interesting route as she decides to avoid small country towns.  In this case Yarram, a transit of which really is not going to add any time.  However, she says "turn left" so I do.  The road is rather narrow and well endowed with vegetation. This was our first encounter with the Tarra River.  It seemed rather trivial so I looked up recent rainfall for Yarram and there has only been 36mm so far this year.  No wonder the ground has been cracked in a few spots. At Tarra Falls a pretty caterpillar was exploring a fern trunk. Here is the top of the fals Lower down: the official steps only go about 1/4 of the way and I was discouraged from following an unofficial goat track. We had a GPS "moment" when we got close to the Park Visitor Centre.  There were 2 roads off to the right and I took the first....

I thought I should offer a warning about the size of this post so that folk on limited download can choose whether to open it. Frances thought that we could manage to ascend The Piccaninny as it was rated as Easy/Moderate.  Mount Sturgeon was also a possibility but a fair bit longer and higher.  Before tackling that we did our morning heartstarter walk extending it a bit to come back along Salt Creek.  Fortunately Frances looked closely at the marked up map from the Visitor Centre and realised the track was on the South side of the Creek (after I had followed an illusory track towards the Northern side)! We came across a sign about an art work and initially couldn't spot it.  Then we did as well looked from the correct position.  Rocks on wire (marked 1 and 2) suspend a wire canoe over the creek.  The work is "Hide" by Trevor Flinn.  It was sponsored by Maria and Allan Myers , owners of the walled garden. "What is beyond along the path?"  Allison ...