Two Lakes, Two Dams, One Spring

19 Nov 2011 / Kenny / No comments

Daylesford, Jubilee, Specimen Hill & Wombat
(a.k.a. Lurking on the Lerderderg)

IMBA Blue Circuit

An IMBA Blue circuit taking in Jubilee Lake, Specimen Hill Dam and Lake Wombat with an optional start/finish out and back between Lake Daylesford and Jubilee Lake. Traverses part of the Great Dividing Trails’ Lerderderg Track not to mention tracks named from days of yore — Star, Post Office, Batson Still … Did I mention the site of Graves Telegraph Mill? Read more

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Up Spout and Down Badger

16 Sep 2011 / Kenny / No comments

This circuit has been a private favourite for 11 years. To announce the forthcoming summer release of the Daylesford area trail maps, it is now yours also. It will feature on one of those maps.

Bullarto Reservoir

Bullarto Reservoir

A 6km circuit recreational ride or hill training completely within forest and featuring a 2km downhill. Start/finish at the eponymous creek on Kangaroo Creek Rd, off Osborne Rd (aka Coliban Rd on older maps).  This creek flows most of the year and is quite lively in full flow. As it winds its way to join the Loddon, Kangaroo Ck features in a number of prior posted rides. Read more

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Aotearoa : what we found across the ditch

31 Jul 2011 / Kenny / No comments

Tripping Lightly

Recently we had occasion to travel from Auckland to Christchurch, scored a relocation rental wagon so updated ourselves on Highway 1 towns and scenery for the first time in 30 years or so. Most remarkable transformation was the once dungy town of Tirau which now is a mecca for the traveller.

Given our rainfall in Victoria this last year or so, we were not strangers to the normal lush green of NZ

Desert road mountains, NZ

Snow clad peaks from the Desert Road, NZ

but certainly the nature of the landforms was refreshingly different. From the pimply hills of the South Auckland and Waikato farmland through the snow blanketed volcanoes of Tongariro, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe viewed in all their majesty from the Desert Road, then the river riven gorges and flat lands of the Manawatu to the gorse and house pocked hills of Wellington. Read more

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