Sunday walk.

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southern bigfoot

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A couple of friends and I took a walk around a section of Lake Eildon, Victoria Australia.
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It's almost winter and the weather is still good so it was too good an opportunity to miss, we had a late start but it was Sunday no rush.

It's a National park we were walking in and there was a few people around the car park but when we got going saw no one for the rest of the walk. Got to see a Whistling kite, an eagle, one live and one dead deer (looks like someone shot it illegally that morning and just cut out the backstraps and left the carcass three meters from the trail:thumbdn:, i took pics but thought it best to leave 'em out), and one live and dead wombat. It was a good 3 1/2 hour walk with good company. The Lake is really low and has been for years as we've been in drought for what feels like ten years now, you can see in a couple of pics where the water level used to be. It's a great place to walk unfortunately a 4 1/2 round trip in the car to get there from my place.

A couple of pics.
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Thanks for looking.
 
I was going to say that's beautiful country, but then, open country is always beautiful. I think it resonates with something in our genes.

In the third picture, the trees with bare trunks, foliage above them, look like they're in a garden or pruned to open up the ground around them, but I'm sure they grow like that naturally. Do you know what they are?

In the northeast US, we don't know what a drought is.
 
Great photos bigfoot, I haven't been water skiing there for about a decade!

Esav - a cut and paste from the park's website - A notable feature of the park is its relatively large areas of herb-rich forest, dry grassy woodland and undisturbed old growth forest, not well reserved elsewhere in the area. These forests are dominated by a diversity of eucalypt species including stringybarks, peppermints, Red Box and Candlebark, and a host of understorey species such as Silver Wattle, Blackwood and burgan (melaleuca). Orchids and wildflowers are also prolific in season.
 
Great pictures. The lake looks like its in some trouble regarding the drought.
 
It's a bit of a blessing that most Aussie plants are drought tolerant, so really the bush has less grass and wild flowers but the trees and most shrubs are fine. Esav I think that tree with the fungus is a messmate (eucalypt).
 
While there are many species of tree/brush/shrub in Oz, mostly what you will see in natural bush almost anywhere in the country is one type of eucalypt or another, and there are lots of them.

Another common type of tree or bush are the members of the Acacia family.
One of my favourites is the Cootamundra Wattle, I have a few of them around my place.

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Cootamundra, BTW, is a country town not too far west of my place.
 
Oh, yes, nice pics SB. :)

Eildon, for those who don't know, is as SB says in the state of Victoria. It's in the Great Dividing Range and a little less than halfway from Melbourne towards the Snowy Mountains. It's very attractive country.
 
Great pics of what looked like an enjoyable trip :thumbup:

Th scenery reminds me of the snowy scheme dams on the NSW side of the border.

BTW, how's the trout fishing in Eildon? I hope it hasn't been knocked around too much by the dry conditions.



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Mick
 
Beautiful pics, I love seeing photo's from Australia. One of those places I'd like to visit before I die.
 
Great pics buddy, totally different from my neck of the woods but beautiful just the same !!!!

It's left me pondering that I like to think I'm getting half decent at knowing my wild edibles but put me anywhere other than England or Canada and I'd be useless !!!!!
 
don't worry pit I've lived here most of my life and would struggle to survive in our bush on just bush plants. Usually plenty of animals and reptiles around to eat, though the majority are protected native fauna so i've got on idea how it tastes.
 
southern bigfoot said:
don't worry pit I've lived here most of my life and would struggle to survive in our bush on just bush plants. Usually plenty of animals and reptiles around to eat, though the majority are protected native fauna so i've got on idea how it tastes.
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Feel free to come up to my place, catch a few Brown snakes if you like, I'll let you fry 'em up on the barby and you can try 'em out. :)
 
Great pics, thanks for sharing. That really sucks about the deer, and the drought though.
 
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