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When you get time John Mate, send me a PM with your mobile number and I’ll shoot you back my new Sat number I’m checking nightly for...

Ready whenever you are Chrisso Mate!
Wonnangatta is a great kiddies playground [emoji106][emoji106]


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Back down through Harrietville/Bright/Myrtleford and Wangarratta.
Made a surprise overnight stay with the family up on Ulupna Island to finish off our quick little GQ - MB & LB Adventure:
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Out and across to the Dargo High Plains:

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Cattlemen are starting to move their stock down for the winter:
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Aldi Lamb Choppies for dinner and into bed for a sleepless night of Oldies Elvis Presly fighting some sort of Youngies DoofDoof until the wee hours:
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Up along the Crooked River to make camp for 2 nights at Talbotville.....although....

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Wood was extremely scarce and we got...

Off to Talbotville along the ridge line:

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A Private...

The 3.1km Herne Spur climb from Wonnangatta River 490m ASL up to Wombat Range Track intersection, circa 1,000m ASL had good dry surface traction Wednesday but some quite steep pinches I couldn’t...

Unfortunately we were too slow on the camera and the old icrapple phone has a horrible zoom.
At first we thought a giant fox crossed the track in front of us, what a rare and beautiful sight it was,...

Up early and out of the valley via Herne Spur Track, numerous shallow crossings at the moment on the way to the climb out:

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Aldi Indian Butter Chicken night with Roti & Rice:
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Ran some timing tests on matfew ‘s Petroleum candles for green wood emergencies, amazing results:

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Teaching the Littlen how to identify wet wood by that spew smell and confirming her choices by our work meter:

Off the charts spew time [emoji23]
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Back to base camp for some afternoon relaxation and art classes......sketch me what you see LB:

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Littlens take words so...

Went searching for the original Zeka CREEK Track that we used to drop into the valley some 25+ years ago well before the Zeka SPUR Track was made:

Found some sort of unmarked mine shaft thingy:
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The Elms Camping Area & Horse Yards:

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The modern shelter hut:

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Across to the main homestead site:

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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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A perfect valley morning we awoke to:

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Offloaded...

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

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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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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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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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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...