australia:vic:marysville
Marysville and surrounds
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Marysville:
decimated by the Feb 2009 bushfires, much of Marysville has now been rebuilt and there is a lovely cafe and a large bakery cafe as well as a number of shops.
1.5hrs drive from Melbourne in the sub-alpine ranges although Nordic/cross-country skiing maybe available at Lake Mountain 16km away
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local drives & walks:
Steavenson's Falls:
Lady Talbot Drive
easy gravel drive through the stark landscape of dead tall Eucalypt forests to a nice 4km (2hr) Beeches Rainforest walk along the cascading Taggerty River
on the way are:
Phantom Falls (800m return, 30min) - best seen in Spring when snow melt provides decent flows
Keppel Falls walk 2km return (1hr)
Keppel Falls Lookout (on the road just past the walk)
the road past The Beeches is rough and should be avoided in wet weather in particular, unless you have a 4WD
Big Trees Walk
Lake Mountain Drive
other waterfalls nearby:
Cora Lynn (Cambarville)
Cumberland
accommodation:
I would probably avoid the long and windy Marysville-WoodsPoint Road via Cambarville as there are only a few areas of interests and most of the bushwalks have not been maintained after the fires:
the gravel road to Matlock and Woods Point (former gold field) starting at the Cumberland junction of the Marysville-WoodsPoint Road and Warburton-WoodsPoint Road is quite remote and not worth driving for most people but will get you to Jamieson and Lake Eildon after some 120km of gravel road through mountains which will take ~2.5-3hrs in good dry weather
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Lake Mountain:
120km or 1.5hrs from Melbourne via Maroondah Hway, Healesville, Black Forest, Narbethong & Marysville
food, curiosity shops, ski &
snow chain hire at Marysville
over-snow transport not required, car parking ($25/day?) is next to the cross-country trails & snow-play slopes
road conditions ph: 1902 240 523
Matlock:
the original town established in 1864 when gold was found there but was destroyed by fire in 1873 (1875?)
All Nations and Loch Fyne gold reefs.
initially known as Emerald Hill, but name changed as conflicted with the Melbourne suburb of same name which would become South Melbourne
sited 5,000 feet above sea level and became the highest inhabited town in Australia
Yarra Track to Melbourne via Marysville was opened in 1862
Post Office closed in 1934 but re-opened in 1954 when a sawmill was established (this closed in 1975), but closed again in 1970
Woods Point:
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remote goldmining and now timber and tourist township named in 1864 after storekeeper Mabille Wood went prospecting for gold one day and never returned
huge quartz reefs containing gold extending from Jamieson to Walhalla were discovered in 1861
after more than 100 years of mining its gold yield totalled 155 tonnes – or more than 5 million ounces – with an average ore grade exceeding 27g/t.
20% of this was produced by the Morning Star mine between 1861 and 1963
A1 Mine Settlement is a town located north of Woods Point on the Mansfield - Woods Point Road.
The A1 Mine was one of Australia’s longest operating mines having been worked through to 1992. It produced in excess of 450,000 ounces of gold.
Black Friday bushfires of 1939 destroyed much of the above ground mining infrastructure, but following this, Western Mining Corp. who now owned the mine, went deeper and discovered the Achilles' Reef which yielded more than 250,000oz and became known as one of the richest single reefs ever mined in Australia. This mine closed in 1962 due to lower gold prices and higher electricity prices (used to pump groundwater out of the mines)
3 gold mines are still active in the area
3 hours drive from Melbourne (much is along windy, gravel road)
nearest hospital, doctor and dentist is in Mansfield
nearest general store is Jamieson
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australia/vic/marysville.txt · Last modified: 2018/02/03 22:52 by gary1