Mel - Adel trip 2008 (2)

19 Mar 08 (Wednesday) - Grampians

Highly recommended to be visited when in Mel as the Grampians are one of the world's oldest and most spectacular mountain ranges, rich in Aboriginal history and an abundance of wildlife...

Pick-up was at the Immigration Musuem at 740am. It was a full 3 hrs drive from Mel city to the heart of Grampians. Our first stop was at the Visitor Centre and we wandered off to the nearby bushland for close-up looks with the wild kangaroos and also taking great pictures with the mountains as our background.

Kangaroos behind us.. if you can spot them..

Nice pict taken with our newly bought tripod stand

As we walked through the grass patches, there were loads of kangaroo poo.. we were careful not to step on too many of them.. but after a while, you just give up.. just too much to not step on any.. haha.. Before we head off to our next stop, we stopped for lunch at Halls Gap (small town in the Grampians). We had kangaroo meat and it was cooked just nice! Apparently, if kangaroo meat is fully cooked, you can throw it away as it is not edible (too tough). Haha, has the texture of beef but not much smell... Tasty actually.. Maybe I was hungry..

MacKenzie Falls was our very next stop. The walk down to the waterfall approximated 700m and it was spectacular view... But of course, the climb back up was quite siongz.. Haha..




Other stops we had were at lookouts with great view of the greenery of the mountaineous areas. Weather is good and cool breeze kept the sunshine bearable. To get to the lookouts like Jaw of Death and Balconies Lookout, we need to hike for about a km but relatively flat land. Think that the key attraction of this trip is the sight-seeing and our objectives were achieved with lots of great photos and videos taken!

Nice and relaxed trip with lots of traveling on the road. Glad that I did not opt to do the self-drive as it would have been so tiring! Rested pretty much on the coach to and fro for the the whole trip! Haha.. Ready for the next day trip to the Great Ocean Road! It turned out to the best 1 day tour that both Haz and I had gone onto! Highly recommended as it was really a Tour with a Difference!