Firstly would like to thank you all for coming especially Troy, Megan, Casey and Jason for driving up there in the fog the night before to secure our camp site. As for the other eight vehicles we meet at Traralgon at 8.30am the following morning promptly leaving at 8.35am.
We headed out to Heyfield then onto Briagolong then up through the Blue Pools onto the Dargo road. After a short drive down the tar we veered left at the caravan park onto the Crooked River road which should have taken us on a pleasant drive into camp however this didn’t happen after stopping for lunch and a cuppa at Kingswell Bridge, we continued not actually realising that we should have turned right on the other side of the bridge this wasn’t discovered until about 40 min later when we arrived at Eaglevale camp ground. After discussions with the members eight vehicles two with camper trailers a river crossing and a steep climb over the mountain we decided to continue up Eaglevale track onto to Cynthia Spur Track as being in the club had given us the experience to do this instead of turning around and heading back to Kingswell Bridge.
All successfully getting to Cynthia Spur Track we came across a group of cars at Station Track with one stuck half the way up the Track so we continued along Cynthia Spur until reaching Crooked River Track and got into camp at approximately 4pm where Jason and thecrewhadthefiregoing. Everyonesetupcamp and enjoyed a night around the fire.
We all awoke Saturday morning to a clear sky after breakfast and a short discussion everyone decided to stay a camp for a relaxing day and go for a drive on the Sunday however Jason had a flat battery himself Troy Megan and Dan went for a short run to charge the battery but ended up being a 4 hour trip.
Once again we sat around the fire after tea relaxing until an elderly gentleman in the club thought it would be good to play some games using a pair of scissors which had most of us confused on his method of the game. Casey then decided to play a game called What would you bring camping which most people switched onto except the trip leader (der)
Rising on Sunday to another top day the call was out for a 10 oclock departure to Wonnangatta Station for lunch with Jason And Casey deciding to stay at camp,the rest of us headed up Station Track onto Cynthia Spur and down Wombat Range Track which took us to Herne spur track which showed on the map to be steep in sections so I asked Troy if he would guide us down it to which he Jumped at this took us to the valley floor we then followed the Wonnangatta River to the Station and Ruins for lunch. A great place to see if you had never been there before. Finishing lunch we headed back along the Wonangatta river to Humffray tk onto Harts Spur climbing to approx 1400mtrs then on to Tea Tree Range tk which would take us straight back into camp arriving at 3.30 only to find that the entry to camp had been blocked by 15 or so logs of wood with a wood splitter hanging out the end of 1, a new track was made around them much to Casey and Jasons discussed they had spent the day cutting wood up for the nights fire we all then went back and split the logs up and carried down to the fire Thanks Jason and Casey, After another great night around the fire we all headed to bed for the trek home the following morning, Troy, Megan and Glenn heading out early as Megan had work and the rest of us leaving around 10am. Following the traffic back out to the dargo rd then onto Heyfield where we all enjoyed at counter meal then arriving back home around 4.30pm. Lyn and I would like to thank everyone that came and encourage other members to be trip leaders its not that hard when you have the support of the club and their is 2 great advantages, 1 A fuel assistance card kindly donated by Vanderwiel Motors and 2 NO DUST!!!!!!!!!!
By Danny