I went back to Bunyip State Park today
for another loop walk. This isn't amazing walking terrain with
sweeping vistas and interesting tracks, but, there is plenty of
opportunity for solitude (the roads/tracks are all gated so only the
self or horse-propelled can access them, which automatically rules
out almost 99% of the population), the forest is beautiful and it is
very close to where we are house-sitting.
This time I did a loop (about 13 km/400
m gain) on the south side of Tonimbuk Road (one of the major
east-west roads through the park) and saw no-one for the almost three
hours I was out except for a family group of three on horses - it's
surprisingly easy to walk as fast as horses.
I parked at Mortimer Picnic Area again
which seems like a good place to leave a car off the road (noted the
half-empty soft-drink cans I would take home to dispose of, cursed
"sugar burners"), and wandered off to the south along the
Yarra Bubba Track. At a saddle, I intersected the Sandpit Ridge
track which took me along a couple of low ridges to the park boundary
at Pooley Road. I did have to suck up almost a kilometre of road
walking (gravel and quiet) to complete this loop, but, at the
junction with Tynon North Road I got off on Avards Track which ambles
up a spur ridge to 300 metres and a junction with Lupton Track.
Along Lupton Track heading west there is a viewpoint looking north
over Diamond Creek valley before the track descends to cross Tynon
North Road again. A short stretch on Cannibal Creek Track leads to
Dawson Track and a nice forested walk out to the Tonimbuk Road.
Although not shown on the Victoria Parks map, a track leads back to
Mortimer Picnic area so you don't have to close this last section of
the loop on the road.
Luptons View
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