Possible catch up and 4x4 day trip in Victoria!

[MudRunnerTD]

Hi, we wanted to do Big Hill track three years ago when we came back from our trip around Australia but people told us our Delica would never make it...
Might have a drive there this weekend then! :-)
When we went to Dandos I thought we went through Forrest, it was a while ago so I could be wrong about the time. Colac is about 50 mins - we never head that way when going to the otways, always through Forrest.
From memory it was the Geelong 4x4 club that were caretakers, but again I could be proven wrong about that also!
Not a member of any club, only the Geelong Field and Game.
Kids are 3 boys: 14, 12 and 7 and a 10 year old girl.
Camping sounds good! :-)

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Hi Emm,

I have just got home and reviewed the Map. Dandos is halfway between Gellibrand and Forrest on off Lardners Rd / Gellibrand Rd. There may be a little time saved heading down via Forrest, not much though mate. The easiest drive would be via Colac for sure. If you took Cape Otway Road you could maybe save 20 minutes but miss the opportunity to Fuel up in Colac.

Now lets talk Big Hill Track. Big Hill track is Miles away from Dandos mate, its at the other end of the Otways Ranges nearly and is off Deans Marsh Road. The top of Big Hill track junctions Deans Marsh road at the end of Mt Sabine rd also which is considered an "Iconic 4WD Track" OMG! what a disgrace! I could definitely do that in Naomi's Volvo wagon for sure!

I can certainly think of plenty of tracks that will be more fun that Big Hill track mate, i think you will be very disappointed when you get down there this weekend! most of the tracks to the East side of Deans Marsh rd are Easy in my opinion, nothing even gets to Medium there mate.

I will get down there in the next month and check out some tracks so we dont waste our time and still have some good catchup time too.

So if everyone is happy Dandos is the spot then. Paul is fine to travel so Dandos it is. It is a Public space and could have many campers there. there is a Drop toilet that may or may not be clean and f we can have a fire then we will need to bring bagged wood as finding good wood to burn could be a challenge.

Although it would be great i can assure you Emm that the Geelong 4WD Club does Not look after Dandos Camp ground in any way. They have not done a Camp Host there for at least 5 years and do not provide any form of management service to that area. Dandos is in the Otways Forrest Park and is therefore managed by Parks Victoria who do a great job as long as Victoria is not on Fire.

As Emm stated the Maridian Touring Map "The Otways 4WD Map" is by far the best map of the area.

Emm i have an 8 year old Boy and a 2.5 yo little girl. Bring the tribe.