Halls Gap, Grampians National Park

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Originally uploaded by s webster

Well it’s been a while since I’ve last updated. I had to move out of Melbourne as the Grand Prix took over the city and all the hostel beds as well.

It’s quite nice up here extremely quiet until the birds start to yell around supper time. The first day I met my friend Tatiana from the UK. We dumped our stuff at the hostel and went looking for some trails. Ending up in town (250 permanent people live here and there are 6000 beds) we found the visitor information centre. We got a map and took off looking for a trail. Ok this is the second place that I have been in a national park and wonder where people in this country learned to cartography? We completely missed the start of the trail by 2.5kms, on the way back to town we managed to find it! Hidden beside a bridge, there are trail markers but they have been over grown by trees and are not visible at all. We did make it to the top and there is a great view.

Upon our return to town we decided to head out and find food, but wait it’s a small tourist town everything closes at 8:00pm. We managed to find one open restaurant and they were serving Kangaroo. It was great! It tastes a lot like Bison, very lean.
The days here have been sunny and hot. Hovering around 30+ each day. Tho the past 2 days it’s been cold around at around 20.
Halls gap is a great place to unwind walk among kangaroos and star gaze. The kangaroos’ even come right up to the door to eat the grass.

As Easter is just around the corner I will be staying here for the next week as a lot of hostels fill up over the holidays here.

Have a great week and Happy Easter!