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SCHEVY
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« on: April 06, 2010, 10,50:50 AM »
Gidday All,
After the epic Pete's cruisy Eildon ride & pub on Good Friday, Fred & I headed off to Abbeyard for the rest of Easter. A few other happy campers & their families where already there and then Wiggy rolled up.
On Saturday, Wiggy offered to lead Fred & I on a ride up Cobblers Track to Lake Cobbler, which turned out to be a 70km round trip. This track would have to be for me, one of the harder ones i've down as far as hills go and the first OMG moment was right at the start, heading up about 2km's of rutted uphill (didn't stack  Wink) ...yet). Once through that we headed on great flowing up & down hills heading towards the helipad. Some of the hills were really steep, long & rocky and I had my first off heading down the hill after the helipad...woops Lips sealed Once given instruction on how to correctly tackle these rocky mothers, I got up the next one no problemo...One more stack for me going down a real steep rocky cliff face, where I had a melting moment & Mr Wigg came to rescue the damsel in distress. At this point we were only about 4k's short of Lake Cobbler so nothing was going to stop me now Cool. After cruising around some winding mountain road & viewing the highest waterfall in Oz & some spectacular views, we crossed a creek & made it to the Lake...What a prize for our efforts! It is so beautiful. After a brief stopover (no pub up there!), we headed back to base, detouring via an old logging track which avoided the OMG bits near the Lake and which turned out to be a really nice flowing trail., Rejoining Cobbler Track, only one more stack during the return Sad, (these are very challenging hills), but you'll be glad to know I made it back down the rutty section at the end of the trail, without a stack!
Totally knackered at the end of the ride but happy as a pig in it Grin The bottle of chardy went down well that night.
Thank you Wiggy for taking us on the guided tour, down a track I never thought I would be able to conquer...but did it!
Abbeyard was just perfect, & guess what, it never rained once!  Grin
Here's some pics of the day...
Cheers...Marls

 









































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Eric L

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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2010, 11,47:00 AM »
Hey Marls did you take some sort of "small"stuffed fluffy toy with you Huh Grin
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Serge C
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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2010, 12,16:46 PM »
Quote from: Eric L on April 06, 2010, 11,47:00 AM
Hey Marls did you take some sort of "small"stuffed fluffy toy with you Huh Grin

I think it's her handle-bar mascot!

Either that, or something her and Fred use to wash the bikes.

 Grin
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2010, 03,16:10 AM »
Marlene,
2 things !
Well Done in completing the ride. Grin
Dandongadale Falls isn't the tallest waterfall in Oz, that title goes to Wallaman Falls in QLD at 305m. Dandongadale Falls comes in at 255m.

Interestingly, Lake Cobbler was originally a subalpine wetland, dammed in the 1950s by timbergetters.
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SCHEVY
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2010, 03,25:39 AM »
Quote from: Serge C on April 06, 2010, 12,16:46 PM
Quote from: Eric L on April 06, 2010, 11,47:00 AM
Hey Marls did you take some sort of "small"stuffed fluffy toy with you Huh Grin

I think it's her handle-bar mascot!

Either that, or something her and Fred use to wash the bikes.

Don't be deceived by her looks. She is a lethal weapon, trained to attack on command, code name "Killer"  Wink

 Grin
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SCHEVY
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2010, 03,29:36 AM »
Quote from: Wiggy on April 07, 2010, 03,16:10 AM
Marlene,
2 things !
Well Done in completing the ride. Grin
Dandongadale Falls isn't the tallest waterfall in Oz, that title goes to Wallaman Falls in QLD at 305m. Dandongadale Falls comes in at 255m.

Interestingly, Lake Cobbler was originally a subalpine wetland, dammed in the 1950s by timbergetters.

Gidday Wiggy,
Thank you for the info; there goes the volcano crater theory...I still reckon you'd make a great tour guide!
Cheers...Marls
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2010, 06,11:38 AM »
Quote from: Wiggy on April 07, 2010, 03,16:10 AM
Marlene,
2 things !
Well Done in completing the ride. Grin
Dandongadale Falls isn't the tallest waterfall in Oz, that title goes to Wallaman Falls in QLD at 305m. Dandongadale Falls comes in at 255m.

Interestingly, Lake Cobbler was originally a subalpine wetland, dammed in the 1950s by timbergetters.
Gee David, you are a wealth of Knowledge!!
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2010, 08,30:58 AM »
Quote from: Wiggy on April 07, 2010, 03,16:10 AM
Marlene,
2 things !
Well Done in completing the ride. Grin
Dandongadale Falls isn't the tallest waterfall in Oz, that title goes to Wallaman Falls in QLD at 305m. Dandongadale Falls comes in at 255m.

Interestingly, Lake Cobbler was originally a subalpine wetland, dammed in the 1950s by timbergetters.

It is the tallest water fall in Victoria Grin
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2010, 05,57:32 AM »
THAT LOOKS LIKE A GREAT CAMP SPOT U PICKED THERE. ARE THOSE SHADE TENTS OUR NEW SHED.
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« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2010, 11,36:46 PM »

A link to the significant waterfalls in Australia,
Dandongadale falls is in there.

http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/tallest-waterfalls.jsp
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