This is a beautiful spot - lots of bush around us and plenty of magpies warbling outside. It was quite warm when we arrived so Royce set up the generator and we got the air conditioner running (what a hard life????). We cooked a couple of steaks for tea then decided to go for a walk. It was only going to be a short walk but we ended up doing a 1 hour circuit to get back to the caravan and boy are my hips feeling it! Still, it was a lovely walk and we had a look at the old gold mine, saw lots of magpies, galahs, finches and a couple of coloured parrots. There are quite a lot of bees around the place (a property nearby has a large quantity of beehives) but they aren't bothering us much once we shooed out the two that came into the caravan when we first got here. We did see a fairly large beehive in one of the trees when we went for a walk as well. We also saw a very large hare but it hopped away before I could get a photo. It was about the size of a smallish dog. The flies haven't been too bad (so far) and hopefully that situation will continue.
Some of the bush area near us
five of the magpies
Miss B Haven
The old gold mine (part of it at least)
Some of the bushland along the track we were walking on
Interesting photos of Mt Monster. I have photos taken in July 2013 in a blog at www.daarinephotoshoots.com if you are interested.
ReplyDeleteI lived just south of Mt Monster for 28 years and I can assure you that there is no gold mine in there! But there is a gold ESCORT ROUTE that passes through the park. This dates back to when gold from the Balarat area was being traded through Adelaide.
The quarried area (previously Little Mt Monster) was mined for the granite which was crushed for road making material.
Anyway, I trust that you can find my blog post and enjoy the photos there.
Regards,
David