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Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Walhalla March 16th 2013

Friday and Saturday. We left the coastal regions and headed inland on Friday morning, stopping at Sale for shopping, and then headed through Traralgon to Walhallor. The mountain road is twisty, but sealed all the way, presenting no travel issues. At the far north of town is a free camp with limited spaces for RVs and a tent site adjacent. Good facilities too. Valhallor was the Great Feasting Hall in Nordic mythology where half of the soldiers slain in battle found their rest. I'm not sure if Walhallor could be described as the great hall, but it is an interesting mix where this ghost town has elegant beauty, scarred by man, and regrown to great spleandour, but pock marked with awful tradgedy. Let me explain. Walhalor is in a narrow river valley, very steep contours, great ... read more
Walhallor Camp Spot (free)
Winding the clock back
Walkabout around Walhalor.

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Walhalla February 2nd 2012

Tuesday 31st January - we had already decided to stay an extra day in Wantirna to prepare ourselves for our on-going adventures so the day was spent quietly organising ourselves. We wanted to go east from Melbourne and, in particular, head for a place called Walhalla. At the same time, we had some dry-cleaning to collect (our borrowed wedding outfits) and some grocery shopping to do. We didn’t want to take the caravan to Walhalla so we arranged for it to be put into storage for a few days and for us to return to it when we had completed our excursion to eastern Victoria. Obviously because of the wedding and the subsequent trip to Rye, we had a fair bit of re-organising to do and it took us longer than anticipated. Eventually, though, we found ... read more
How Walhalla looked in 1910
The Walhalla Gold Mine
Approaching the hills of the Baw Baw National Park




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