Grampion National Park

Lookout

In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Sydney Bay with the first 11 ships of convicts to plant the Union Jack and begin the occupation of Australia by Great Britain. This day has since been celebrated as Australia Day, filled with barbecues, lamingtons, beer, citizenship ceremonies and cricket. Since it is also a long weekend Pete took me camping at Grampians National Park.

It is remarkably close to Melbourne, only about a 2.5 hour drive. Of course we are in Victoria so we cannot drive a reasonable speed, the freeways here max out at 110 k/h = 68 m/h and you can only go 3k/h over before you lose a point off your license AND they have speed cameras all over the place! Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

We got in and setup camp late Friday evening but that meant we had a full day Saturday to explore and play. We drove every 4×4 track that caught our interest. Visited lookouts, scrambled up granite piles, hiked to view waterfalls (some of which actually had water) went swimming and even got in a cycle at the end of the weekend. To top it all off I saw wild Emu with her littles! It was a lovely weekend and I regretted having to leave.