It is 221 years since Captain Philip and the convict ships first landed at Sidney Cove. We drove over 100 kilometers to Woods Point through the Yarra Ranges National Park, one of Victoria’s largest temperate rainforests, but when we got there the one small shop had sold out of the map we would need to do the 4WD tracks and the pub had stopped serving food!
We drove about 60 Km through the park on an unsurfaced road and went for a cream tea in Noojee, a lovely quiet village on the edge of the Yarra State Forest. We had intended driving further, but the friendly owner of the café came and chatted to us and suggested we camp by the Tooronga River. He talked about how the village had been wiped out twice by bush fires. The last one in 1939 killed 73 people in Victoria. The route to the campsite was through one of the most beautiful valleys I have seen.
WILDLIFE: Crimson Rosella, Kookaburra, Sulpher Crested Cockatoo
WILDLIFE: Crimson Rosella, Kookaburra, Sulpher Crested Cockatoo
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| Valley near Noojee |
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