We left the Foster’s place at 1130 after a very relaxed morning. They had recommended that we visit the Organ Pipes National Park. We dropped Kate off at school and continued on to the North. We turned in to the park just opposite the Calder Park Raceway.
Towering above peaceful Jacksons Creek, the impressive basalt columns that resemble organ pipes were formed about a million years ago . You walk down to the river from the car park and can walk along the quiet stream and look for platypus while wondering at the majestic rock features.
We took the Organ Pipes track down to the creek, followed along to the right along the river for a little while, and then doubled back to the left river trail to see the rosette rock (fenced off due to erosion)
and the tesselated pavement.
From there we came steeply up the hill (not a track marked on the map above , but you can see it on the Strava map below. ) to the parking area. Thanks once again to the maps.me app, which showed us where we could go.
With the temperature over 30 degrees we were plenty warm enough at the end of the walk and in need of a good drink. We used the handy pump to do that.
We stopped here in the shade and had a quick lunch and relaxed before heading on our way via Digger’s Rest.
We stopped on the outskirts of Bacchus Marsh to shop and then headed west on the M8.
We located the Mt Langi Ghiran campground in good time . This is a lovely spot with quiet grassy areas, long drop toilets, caches to search for (and not find) and a number of picnic tables scattered throughout the picnic area. We pulled up next to one of these and made it our own for the night. Kookaburras chorused in the huge old gum trees.
One nearby tenter put on a generator and watched a movie, but it was quiet fairly early.
We were still comfortable in our T shirts at 7pm and enjoying a quiet drink after our dinner. It wasn’t too long before we slipped into the swags and closed our eyes.
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