Langers and I were recently given our “Leave Passes” from the ladies, and took off on a two week ride thorugh Victoria, some of the Snowy Mountains. Our main objective was to follow the Murray River from it's source near Tom Groggin, south of Threadbo, to Goolwa SA where it empties into the Southern Ocean. On the way we stayed at Naracoorte whene we visited Struan House, an agricultural research centre where Langers had some contact in his previous life, the famous caves, and a local museum where I found photos of a school that I attended in the 1960's. We then spent a few days exploring the Grampians, The Ottways (and an OzSTOC RTE) and the Victoria Silo Trail where we bagged some Big Thing photos and I nearly got bogged, and then onto Jindabyne before kicking off our “Source to Sea” ride, planned to be as close as we could get to the river on the black top (minus a few kilometers after couple of GPS “challenges”)
Our Route
Struan House
My house at Frances (now demoilished)
Boroka Lookout above Halls Gap
Red Rock Lookout
Fire deveastation in the Snowy Mountains
View from out cabin in Jindabyne
Langers at Charlotte Pass, the highest paved road in Oz
Me with the Big Moutain behind me
The beautiful Wild Brumby Distillery
Our lunch at the Wild Brumby
As close as we could get the start of the Murray at Tom Groggin
Mark collecting water at Tom Groggin to empty at the Mouth
Emptying the water at the mouth
Two adventurers at the end of a great two weeks