Spent a wonderful day at Mt Buffalo National Park about 10kms north of Bright. Mt Buffalo boasts The Horn which is highest peak in the park at 1723m. The Horn is the farthest point of sealed road from the park entrance and is 30km away. It is a steep windy drive through the park to the Horn. It is then a 750m walk to the summit which reward you with magnificent views of the Australian Alps. The views really are spectacular and we have seen nothing quite like it. It was truly impressive. Parks Victoria have really done a good job with their walking tracks and have cut steps into the natural existing rock. We are still being very lucky with the weather and it was perfect 27 degrees and we saw it at its best. However it would also be great to see it with snow! Apparently this area gets very little snow nowadays compared to what it used to get years ago. Mt Buffalo is a snow skiing area but is more of a beginners slope and tobogganing and snow tubing. Lake Catani is one of the many features of the park and it popular for canoeing however we didn’t kayak today as we were conscious of leaving Coco in the van any longer than necessary and there were some walks we wanted to do – can’t do it all. The park was much more speccie than we thought it would be and well worth a visit. There are lovely snow gums that feature in the park and they have started to change colour, on one walk I walked through a snow gum forest it was lovely. Another feature of the park is the gorge – never expected to see anything like that. It was a hugely steep cliff face with a waterfall (Crystal Brook) that actually had gushing water falling over it. The gorge is popular for rock climbing and abseiling and hang gliding. In fact they have a launching pad specifically for hang gliders. On a clear day you could see Mt Kosciuszko, today they were burning off so not such a good view. The whole park was fantastic and some wonderful views and granite boulders. Funny how some of them look like things and animals. We took 277 photos but you’ll be happy to know we’ve reduced them to 39 for the album below. We are both really impressed with this part of the world (central to eastern Victoria) it is very pretty and one of the nicest areas we have seen.
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