Departed our camp on Lake Hume at Huon early as we wanted to get as far as possibledown the Omeo Highway due to bad weather being forcast in the next few days, and we
definately didn't want to be travelling through snow country in bad weather.
The Omeo highway is quite senic and follows the Mitta Mitta River valley up into
the Victorian High Country, but it is so steep, narrow and winds around the sides of huge
mountains like Mt.Bugong and has 30kms of dirt road in poor condition and all with no guard
rails at all. If you went over the edge nobody would ever know as it is so steep into the
ravines below. Edges of the road are broken away and trees have fallen down hillsides onto
the highway so we took it really slow indeed and managed to make it to our campsite on the
Mitta Mitta River at "Big River Bridge" (photo) near an old gold mining town called
Glen Valley which is about 47 kms before Omeo. It was so cold so we decided to cook our tea
on an open fire and use it afterwards to keep ourselves warm. After tea we were sitting
around the camp fire when a local fox decided to venture into our campsite - well you
should have seen our dog "Daisy" go off at it - she must've thought it was a rabbit or
something. No TV only limited Telstra mobile coverage at times here
