The day I finally got to see some mountains again. As in mountains
that are similar to the Alps, appropriately named the “Australian”
Alps. But first of I had to leave Melbourne.
Getting out of bed was
difficult enough, as the air temperature was somewhere around the 2°C
and the bed was so warm. Mid-morning I got myself out and packed up
all the stuff I had and took it to the car, after which I returned
the parking permit and door keys. Said goodbye to everyone and met an
American guy, Jeff, in the doorway. Ended up giving him a lift down a
couple of streets to his new logging and then left Melbourne for now.
Getting out proofed hairy enough again (spaghetti) but I got out in
the end. Had some pies in the outskirts and was then already in hilly
country. Stopped a few times to get pictures and at one point I
decided to do a timelapse. I haven't touched my DSLR in nearly six
months, so I was all up for it again. Travelling seems to give me
more opportunities to photograph, too. Got the camera all set up,
inserted the intervalometre and then noticed the battery on that was
flat (arrrgg², what have battery's got against me recently?).
The next town wasn't to
far away, being Healesville, a town on the border of the Australian
Alps. Got my battery's there and then set of in to the mountains.
Being in “civilised”
Australia, I thought all the mayor roads would be sealed. Nope, got
on to the C505 and it turned to dirt road rather fast again. It was
nice, though. Small, windy road through the mountains. Trees and
streams all around you and the autumn coldness just reminded me of
home again. In that moment I had really wanted to get on a mountain
bike again and just bike up the mountain instead of driving. Met a
few cars coming the other way, but you could count the amount of cars
I met on the “official” dirt road on one hand. At one point I put
in an hours stop for a timelapse I was looking forward to doing and
had a play around with the GoPro whilst that was going on.
Completing the
timelapse, I then continued on to the top of Mount Donna Buang. Had
far views of where I am heading and where I had come from. The
skyline of Melbourne was just distinguishable in the distance.
Shortly after I hopped back in to the car and drove to the nearby
town of Warburton. I had just missed the tourist info closing and
Google Maps didn't spit any backpacker hostels out, so in the end I
crashed in a cheap hotel and got to editing all the days worth of
data. Slipped in a shower and froze. Nice hot water, but cold autumn
climate and concrete floor don't mix well.
In the evening I went
down to see if anybody way about and have a beer. Only two locals
playing pool, so I ended up having a chat to the barman. According to
him the season for them had just finished, so it was to be forgiven
that the area looked a bit like a ghost town. Just before bed I then
enjoyed my first time YouTubable internet in a while.
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