Grampians weekend

Day 1,
Headed off from mates place around 7am, up through the Adelaide hills, Quick stop off at Tailem Bend to hook up with another mate, then off again, next stop Bordertown for bacon & eggs.

Then off to doctor Paul for a quick chat on the lappy, Trols and the Grampians. Should of been a longer stay but time was already against us so off we go straight through to the Grampians, about 10 mins from camp and get a call from Paul, Thunder storm just rolled through and was heading our way.
Got to camp, got settled and down it came, absoulutely bucketed down for about 1/2 hour, while we have a few settling drinks.....lol.
excellent, nice and wet for wheelin so off we went.
Then back to camp for a well earnt bbq, and many bevy’s as we had a good laugh about the day.

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Did you make it out of the bog in the last pic???

Looks like was a ripper weekend Mate, i would love to explore the grampians.. Looks like a great area

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Originally Posted by toddrhind

Did you make it out of the bog in the last pic???

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x 2 how did you go with that hole?

looks good for a bit of wheelin mate keep the pics comming

Great pics mate....same question as others, how did you go in that bog?

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Originally Posted by toddrhind

Did you make it out of the bog in the last pic???

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Yer got a 5' lift fitted out bush and a set of muddies........lol Not a hope mate got pulled by 2 mitsi's.....ha ha but at least the trol had the balls to give it a go.

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Originally Posted by big_fletch

Looks like was a ripper weekend Mate, i would love to explore the grampians.. Looks like a great area

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was a top weekend mate, If you ask me and this is a big call, Spend a lot of time up the Flinders but i think the Gramp's is much better, its totally different country.

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Originally Posted by AB

x 2 how did you go with that hole?

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got snatched by 2 mitsi's....hahahahah

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Originally Posted by roofy

looks good for a bit of wheelin mate keep the pics comming

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yer mate that was all first day after 6hr drve from Adelaide. Got more pics, but as you can see had trouble sizing them, will post when get sorted

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Originally Posted by wild98

Yer got a 5' lift fitted out bush and a set of muddies........lol Not a hope mate got pulled by 2 mitsi's.....ha ha but at least the trol had the balls to give it a go.

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Wouldn't need 2 have been pulled out if you had a GQ *LMAO*

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Wouldn't need 2 have been pulled out if you had a GQ *LMAO*

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH funny fellow, need a gearbox to get where we went Toddsta

Day 2,
Up and about around 9am, coffe smoke and fire up the bbq for another stapple of bacon and eggs as we plan our route for the day....Plans, Ha like thats gunna work. Pack the eskies in the Trol and off we go.
All roads to the planned route closed due to flood damage or fallen trees, so we made our route as we drove, first thing is to find dirt and it wasn’t long before we did weaving our way through the Grampians to the top seeing some great views and plenty of wildlife, and I tell ya the hoppers jump out of nowhere onto the road right in front of you and they don’t move either, you go around or through. Checked out McKenzie Falls, Rieds lookout and the Balconies among others.
Then time to head back to camp....Doh only one problem. All roads down the mountain were closed. Bumped into many tourists trying to get back down. Couldnt do a lot to help them unless they were prepared to follow us......No takers so off we went for another 3 hour drive through the bush by twilight, soon turned dark as we soldiered on coming across road after road closed with trees across them everywhere, we kept back tracking until we finally found a track that bypassed all the crap. Our 3 hour drive by dusk turned into a 4hr dive by night. Finally never thought I would say this, but with main tank drained and sub with only a few drops it was so good to see the black top. Yeeeh back to camp, to late to fire up bbq so the girls whipped up a couple of platters and the guys cracked a few bevy’s, then a few more, dribble dribble about the day and day done.. Night all.

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What great looking country, I can see why you love going there.
Thanks for the great pics, another place to put on the to do list!!

Pete, you've really done the place justice with those pics mate..... Cheers



Paul

P.s. You forgot to grab my map book last time so best I just take you out & show you next time instead.....lol

Great trip by the sound of it Pete, bloody great photos there as well, thanks............one day I will jump across the border mate....LOL

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Great trip by the sound of it Pete, bloody great photos there as well, thanks............one day I will jump across the border mate....LOL

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That'll be two borders for you Mr Doggy...........lol

& don't forget your passport & temp visa................ROFLMFAO

amazing countryside and fantastic pics Pete, cheers for sharing mate

fanflamingtastic Pete
wonderful country side there
more piccies ????????? we luv piccies lol

always wanted to go up there now its a definet place to go onmy list of things to do
thanks mate for the insperation and pics

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Originally Posted by patch697

Pete, you've really done the place justice with those pics mate..... Cheers



Paul

P.s. You forgot to grab my map book last time so best I just take you out & show you next time instead.....lol

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Cheers mate, Yer i realised as we drove off, but as you can see we found some great tracks, lookin forward to next time mate

Cheers Pete

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Great trip by the sound of it Pete, bloody great photos there as well, thanks............one day I will jump across the border mate....LOL

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Originally Posted by roofy

always wanted to go up there now its a definet place to go onmy list of things to do
thanks mate for the insperation and pics

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Its a must guys, maybe we could organise a 2013 meet up, up that way or sooner

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Originally Posted by wild98

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH funny fellow, need a gearbox to get where we went Toddsta

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hahahah, my gearbox works fine now *L*

great pics mate, looks like a beautiful place 2 spend a weekend