Aboriginal Name - Gariwerd

Right near the border town (Victoria & South Australia) of Horsham, are the Grampians a national park of reasonable size, that although has been scorched, singed and devastated multiple times by bush fire, has come out on top. It is riddled with walking tracks of varying degrees of difficulty and down south where this article is written there’s a giant lake called lake Bellfield good for swimming, fishing and sunset contemplation.

In the southern section of the park there are a few camp grounds and a secluded mountain town called Halls Gap, which has the best ‘Four ’n’ Twenty’ style pie in a great bakery creatively named ’The Halls Gap Bakery’. The Bouroughs Hut campground is a picturesque river side spot which in September when we were there is relatively empty, your neighbours are generally mobs of roos and their joeys trying to lick clean your jaffle iron.

Dubbed (by me) the ultimate selfie spot is the Pinnacle, a huge jutting out piece of rock that has railings grafted along the edges to prevent the over excited from death. It is a highlight for every body especially close to sunset. Although it’s usually crawling with people taking photo’s of each other reenacting scenes from “Cliffhanger”, the view is totally worth it only complimented by the thought of pies waiting for you back at Halls Gap.

Another sweet little hike that you can get to directly from Halls Gap with pie in hand, is Chataqua Peak. It’s a pretty short steep climb that crawls through canyon-esque rock walled paths up up and up till you hit the peak of Chataqua. The view from here is seriously great you can almost see the roos at your camp stealing all your shit!

This is a brief snippet of all there is to do in the grampians so go and check out the rest while you’re there.

by Max Blackmore with some photo's by Ashleigh Dwyer
2014

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