Licola - Howitt - Wonnangatta - Talbotville - Dargo - Hotham - Murray - April 2021

A quick photo dump of our solo ute weekday school holidays adventure our youngest just joined me on through the better known regions of the Victorian High Country - VHC :

Departed last Sunday morning through Powelltown with the weather looking quite discouraging but with hopes of chasing the seasons first early snow dumps:

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Over the hills and into Licola to camp out on the Wellington River for a first nights stay:

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Wood was pretty scarce after the areas coped a flogging over the previous Easter weekend, we did manage to log rat a few leftover bits from previous campers to keep warm:

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Aldi hot fish cakes and chips on the BBQ into our belly’s:

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Time to fire up the electronic maps fireside and.........piece of icrapple [emoji23]

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Thanks to good old fashioned paper maps we plotted out routes together the old fashioned way teaching our Littlen Odometer Navi usage:

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Early to bed, early to rise we started heading up to the Howitt Plains and came across first snow at a level just below 1,000m and half decent snow at 1290m on the Tamboritha Saddle:

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Further up the Gorge Car Park (annual Licola forum trip playground) isn’t quite ready yet:

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Some rubbish found......rissoles everywhere I tells ya’s !!

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Getting thicker and colder as we reach 1,600m nearing the plains up top:

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The Snowy Plains Airstrip 1,630m:

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A quick stop at Howitt Hut:

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Decided to NOT graffiti the Hut and organically left our vandalism outside in the carpark:

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Time to air down and get down off the mountain for some warmth via the Zeka SPUR Track:

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Hot Aldi noodle stop halfway down to warm our belly’s:

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Arriving into the iconic Wonnangatta Station:

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Absolutely stoked, heaps of wood kindly left for our 2 night valley exploration stay:

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Aldi Peking Duck in a pot for a flashy fun lahdedah dinner:

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Of course nothing warms you up like Engel Aldi ice cream after dinner:

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LB warming her feet by the fire, there goes another set of boots:

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A perfect valley morning we awoke to:

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Offloaded the AggyBike and helmets out of their storage Expedition Box and safety gear back in the box along with Satellite phone for a days exploring:

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First stop on our adventure, the Wonnangatta PooPoo shed:

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First stop, quietly walked up to the Cemetery with Black Cockatoo’s throwing Pine cones at each other:

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Friends of Wonnangatta & Parks have done an amazing restoration team effort on all the historical sites throughout the Station:

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Across to the main homestead site:

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The modern shelter hut:

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The Elms Camping Area & Horse Yards:

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