Grampians National Park

 After Melbourne , I headed out to the north west to Grampians national park. It’s such a interesting little mountainous area. It kind of just comes up out of nowhere. So for about two hours I drove through the eucalyptus, Savannah tape ecosystem, big widely spaced eucalyptus, trees with some no grasses that are going to seed pretty yellow and dry Very low, rolling hills. But then arriving at the Grampians, all of a sudden, you see in the distance, a large mountain range that seemed to come out of nowhere. The sparse eucalyptus canopy is traded for a dense eucalyptus canopy, but the tree is are quite different. You end up with their close space together a lot more variety and types the dominant now being this really shaggy bark eucalyptus tree in the lower elevation areas. That’s as opposed to the wider areas with which have this really smooth white bark on most of the trees in the savannas. Reaching the Grampians was such a nice rest after a month of being pretty busy. I decided on my first day to climb the top of the tallest mountain in the Grampians and it was a pretty easy 4 km walk with this really beautiful view when you’re that high up the landscape almost looks like an ocean around you as opposed to land, which is beautiful and amazing and yeah, really a great time.

The next day I went to the nearest town, halls gap, I had the intention of doing some hikes around the area. There’s quite a few really big ones but I think maybe I caught a bit of a cold in vietnam or the poor air quality my lungs just felt very tired. I was just not feeling it after a not very long walks. It felt like I was working too hard and I needed to take a rest. so I headed back to my camp and actually just laid out on my picnic table next to my tent and read and watched the eucalyptus trees and the cockatoos and the parrots and all the wildlife and it was really nice. I was really glad that I decided to do that instead of continuing a hike when I wasn’t feeling that great so I think it was a great decision and I really enjoyed the rest.

The next day went to town again, and I ended up spending a bit of time working and sitting at a café, and I ended up meeting a few other travelers and having some good chats and getting some contact information for different places along the way, which was really lovely and just really nice to Meet some other people out in the wild so that was really nice and good. After that, I packed up my car and headed to Kynton (k-eye-n-ton) to visit a friend.