Back to Genoa and heading home

Tuesday, 1st of Spring, we departed Metung and headed for Genoa via the scenic route following the Tambo River up to Bruthen then across to Nowa Nowa on the Bruthen-Buchan Rd.  Was much more scenic and quiet than the Hwy and this is a pic looking over the the Tambo River. Just stopped in the middle of the road, no traffic, took pic and on our way, couldn’t do that on the Hwy 😉 :

Tambo River on Tambo Upper Rd. between Swan Reach & Bruthen

Back on the Princes Hwy stopped for morning tea at a Rest Stop on Hospital Creek, Tostaree and found a section of the East Gippsland Rail Trail that goes from Bairnsdale to Orbost. Here are the pics:

Rest Area @ Hospital Creek, Tostaree

Hospital Creek, Tostaree, Hwy sign

Bridge across Princes Hwy @ Hospital Creek, Tostaree

The old rail bridge was destroyed in 2011 by a bush fire. It was between the current bridge and the small causeway in next pic.

Rail Trail track & causeway

Rail Trail track goes from Bairnsdale to Orbost

If you do stop, or are travelling through Genoa, the Genoa Falls is about 6km south on Hwy and is well worth a visit. Is a tad hard to find and easier to use these GPS Co-ords  37°28’52.0″S    149°33’16.5″E   or this Google Map shows the route from the Genoa Wayside Rest Area to the falls.  And a pic of the Falls:

Genoa Falls

We stayed at the Genoa Wayside Rest Area for 2 nights and made our way to home at Tathra on Thursday 3rd Sept.
Here is a video of the Genoa Wayside Rest Area and for more info on Genoa click HERE.

The final morning was quite chilly, but warm in van due to the miracle of the Diesel Heater as is attested to in these pics:

A freezing minus 0.4 outside and a comfy 18.8 inside

The freezing outdoors at Genoa – who was the bloody silly dill taking that pic?

And a closing pic from Genoa just up the road from the Rest Area:

Old farm house in Genoa – lots of character!

Well that’s it for another Wallaby Wander.

Next trip is ……. who knows? tomorrow? next year?

Will let you know when we do 😉

Thanks for reading.
Gerri & Kym

 

 

 

Metung via Bruthen

Sunday 30 August – got to a very nice little (emphasis on little) camp at Metung. As planned, we went via Bruthen to play tourists as per map below:

The visit to Bruthen was nice and if you go there you have to try the Cornish Pasties from the bakery. They were our lunch and probably rate as the best we have ever had – no pics, they went too fast 🙂 but here are some from our Bruthen visit:

A nice narrow and traffic free back road on the way to Bruthen, just the way we like it 🙂

The centre “median strip” through the middle of Bruthen – a nice sense of space.

Remains of an RAAF Avon Sabre Jet that crashed close by in 1958. Read the plaque, next pic, for interesting story.

The story behind the RAAF Avon Sabre Jet that crashed nearby.

You would have to go here just to get the “bad service”, we didn’t but were tempted.

Finally got to Metung RV Rest Stop here:

and of course the pics:

Entry to this quite small free camp, loo is at the back

Just enough room to turn around. All was good as we had no neighbours for both nights there.

Walk to lookout from the camp area

Lookout viewing platform

The lookout view

View of lake & boats just across road from the camp.

and then there was the video:

Metung used to have Hot Pools and they were closed in early 90’s due to EPA regulations.  The hot water resulted from bore water coming from a failed mine operation and a local who capitalised on the failure:

More Metung Info HERE.

Monday 31 August. last day of Winter ,,,,,, yaaaaa!
Gerri went for a walk into the Metung town centre a nice boardwalk most of the way and Kym went for his usual ride to uncover some hidden treasures:

Early morning reflections on the Lake next to camp site

More early morning reflections on the Lake

And yet another early morning reflection with a touch of sun for free

Interesting mooring on the Tambo River, seemingly no longer in use. There were a number of these along the 2km track that Kym followed.

Tambo River, the 2km track that Kym followed.

Good potential camp spot on Tambo River. GPS 37°50’33.1″S 147°50’27.4″E

Poo ad on roadside. I won’t shake the person’s hand though 😉

Mon Repos (French for “my place of rest”) What a horrible outlook – NOT

Metung foreshore close to town

Tomorrow, 1st of Spring, off to Genoa for our last few days.