Myrtleford - Xmas 2022 - Page 1

View from the pod balcony. The accommodation is called a pod. A wooden detatched 2 level apartment joined by a deck to a larger accommodation house building thing.

Mount Buffalo as seen from the pod balcony.

Upper level of the pod is the living area and kitchen. No stove / oven.

However there is a bbq exclusive for pod people usage. There is a laundry inside the shed thing too.

Lower level sleeping area, bathroom to the left.

The aforementioned bathroom.

Behold the pod, and a car that has not been washed for 2 years.

The driveway up to the pod is very steep.

Very close to the centre of Myrtleford, the rail trail runs through the middle of town.

An impressive 4 hour long storm rolled through and it rained a lot. Watching from the balcony was good. I tried to take lightning photos with the built in ND filter and some long exposures, but I could not time it right.

First a walk around Myrtleford, here is a creek.

Good early light.

More creek.

The pod is on the slopes of this hill.

Local park with public toilets...

Here is the local shrine.

Many churches. Some forms of Jesus religion are more excited about baby Jesus day than others.

This is the Myrtleford main street, but it is not really, the main street is really the highway through town.

More local park near the tourist info centre.

Drove to Bright for coffee. Took a photo here last time I was in Bright.

Bright church is heavily into baby Jesus day.

Apparently the Bright courthouse. Smaller than expected.

Bright main street. This place is too busy to move from lunch time onwards. The line in the Woolworths was already 100 people long.

Bright museum. Unfortunately, there is a fence around the train carriages, I had to shoot this through the fence from afar.

This is some accommodation I stayed at probably in 2005 or 2006. It still exists.

I had never been to the river area of Bright before where they have created a swimming pool and water amusement zone.

I was likely to get arrested for taking photos here.

Below this waterfall, people float on inflatable tyres and go downstream.

The scene from the top of Mount Beauty.

Sullivans lookout with the town of Mount Beauty below. The little lake in man made.

Main street of Mount Beauty. Quiet. The road to Falls Creek is still destroyed by a landslide so not as much car traffic would be coming this way.

Mount Beauty has a sort of airport, no planes came. There were paragliders floating above the town, but too hard to take a photo of.

Here is the little man made lake seen from above 3 photos ago.

A church in Beechworth, town of many churches. This one appears to be made of concrete. Still hot and blue skies at this point.

Time to go to jail. 2 years ago this was shut and about to reopen.

Despite having a cafe inside they decide to run a food truck, for fashion reasons, and provide horrendous service for a tiny coffee, a feature of all food trucks.

The main corner in Beechworth. A lot of places that were closed previously during peak covid have changed hands and reopened, or just plain reopened.

Main street of Beechworth. Many people come here for daytrips from Melbourne, 3 hours drive each way at least.

Lake Buffalo, it looked interesting on the map.

The lake is nice, areas are full of speed boats, but there are no walking trails.

More lake.

Just when a walking trail had been identified, no, not allowed. Lake is members only.

Here is the lookout over part of Myrtleford. I expected this photo to look a bit better than this.

The local hills are full of well maintained trails, recommended.

Time for the mosaic walk. The walk uses part of the rail trail, then a walk around a good biking trail alongside the Ovens river. It is called the mosaic trail as there are mosaics of various animals made out of tiles embedded in the path, trees, sewer pipes etc. This is the phoenix tree, carved out of a tree by a German guy at a suspicious time. Apparently it includes a depiction of Haleys comet.

The mosaic trail includes a number of river crossings.

Also rocky beaches.

It is a 5.6km loop, all paved, but nice enough.

Last pic today, Mount Buffalo, probably more from the top tomorrow, rain permitting, it is bucketing down now.

Storm at dusk, low cloud in the mountain valleys.

Starting off with fog shots.

Fog and a rock.

Fog and a path.

The fog came and went a couple of times, back in the car park where the lookout was it was so thick that photos were useless.

Getting to the lake. Walked around the lake last time.

Now some dam shots.

More dam. Not walking all the way around today, decided to go to another spot instead.

But first some lake shots.

More lake.

Near the back of the lake is the interesting flat plain bit.

Back at the car park, thick fog around the lookout area.

Time to go elsewhere, this is the cathedral and the hump.

Lots of trails, this is looking back over the road, and there are trails up the other side too.

View of the plateau.

The cathedral. There were rock climbers / abseilers, but I cannot see them here.

Looking back at the cathedral from the hump, I think,

Trails in every direction.

More cathedral.

Cathedral and plain.

Standing on the hump.

Cars below.

Looking back up the hump from the public toilets...

Last photo today, evening walk along the rail trail in the direction of Bright.

Apparently the magic forest is a magical place to go, near Stanley which is a small town near Beechworth.

It is hard to find, on various logging tracks with trail bike riders, but right in the middle is a stand of old growth trees.

Lots of people have piled sticks up to make it creepy at night.

Satanic ritual area.

Apparently the idea is to come here and eat mushrooms at midnight and wander around all night terrified. I figured that out from some of the reviews on google.

Lake Kerferd is nearby. Seemed like a good place to walk around.

Nope, recent floods destroyed the path. No way to get around the flood.

Returned to Beechworth to the more reliable but much smaller Lake Sambell. A Chinese garden is under construction nearby.

This lake was circumnavigated on the previous visit.

Duck blind. Possible last pic of this small holiday.