Tuesday 22 January 2013

Great Alpine Walk: day 7

Today was going to be a reasonably easy day as much of the time was taken up with the return trip to Melbourne.

Breakfast was scheduled for 7:30am so we had set the alarm for 6:30 and did the final pack of our bags. Today we had opted for a light backpack for our walk along with runners on our feet rather than hiking boots.

Packed, we headed over to the Snowline Hotel where breakfast was to be served. We were a few minutes early and sat outside with the other earlybirds waiting for the doors to open.

Along with cereals, juice and yoghurt we were provided with a cooked breakfast. Scrambled eggs, bacon served with a tomato chilli jam on crusty toast. I had tomatoes rather than the bacon. It was far too much delicious food for this time of the morning.

Hot drinks included cappuccinos which was most welcome.

The luggage was stowed and we were off by 8:30am driving from Harrietville to Bright. The local Shire has gone to a great deal of effort to put up signs announcing the names of the areas, villages and towns. Smoko caught my fancy. I wonder what the background to the name is.

A market was being set up in the area of Bright where Phil had planned to park the bus so we were dropped instead and the bus parked elsewhere.

Our walk today was a gentle one along the Bright Canyon. It was a pretty stretch of the river with quite a lot of interesting geological features. The group enjoyed walking across the suspension bridges, too. All up the route covered 3.5km.

Our morning tea break was in Bright and Trevor and I enjoyed a drink while we watched the world wander by.

Back on the bus we headed for Melbourne with a lunch stop in the very dead town of Euroa. Almost nothing was moving in the town at 1:30 on a Saturday afternoon.

We had one further quick (toilet) stop before reaching Melbourne where the first drop off point was the airport. About half of the group was flying home on the Saturday. The next stop was the Alto in Bourke Street. This was a bonus as the trip notes said that the only city drop off would be at the Robinson. We didn't mind at all as it meant that we could get an earlier train out to Glen Waverley.

Jen collected us from the Glen Waverley station.

Trip completed.

Keep an eye out for the trip summary and the flora post. I'll get to them over the next couple of days.


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