Alvie - Home of the volcano

I actually only found out about this little town a few weeks ago when visiting our friends up in Landsborough. Chris told me about this cute little town with an amazing lookout that overlooked little water-holes which are, in fact, old volcanic craters! Wow! I (like probably every other kid) have had a fascination with volcanoes since primary school science, so a 12Km detour off the main road was absolutely nothing to go check this out. Sadly though, I was a bit disappointed. It's my own fault, I let my imagination run away and picture an amazing landscape with pock-marked paddocks for as far as the eye can see... when in reality, there was only a couple craters. Don't get me wrong, they still make for a very interesting site, and if you sit there and use your imagination, you can really get a feel for what the place was once like.

It's still a cool place to visit, up there on Red Rock Lookout, just not what my overactive imagination had built it up to be! Oh well, back to the road...

ps, We indulge ourselves in a little Geocaching now and then, and we've been having a bit of a run of bad luck lately. One good thing I can say about Alvie, that dry spell is over!

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Finding Inspiration In A Small Town

I have just come back from a wonderful weekend away. I went to visit friends out in Landsborough, in Western Victoria.

It was a very inspiring visit, these are two very intelligent people who have studied many different aspects of psychology, as well as being very 'green' in their lifestyle, making for some very weighty, yet enlightening conversations. One of them is also an artist, so we stayed up late having some very inspiring chats.

On Sunday I was taken on a bit of a tour of the area. It was so nice to sit back and be a passenger for once and just be shown the sights, rather than searching them out! Naturally, on our way out I grabbed our little etrex out of Big Red so I could review the tour later because I knew I'd be shown some notable spots that I'll want to return to later.

One of those spots was Camerons Track campground up in the Pyrenees Ranges, a nicely established spot with some good views and some decent looking walking tracks. I'll be stopping back there to camp one day soon and will write a proper report on the area.

Hopefully Big Red Adventures will be going through a bit of a setup and refining process soon, as I slowly work out ways to streamline the page, and my writing! I definitely found inspiration in this small town, and will be making a real effort to get this blog running the way I'd like, with a whole lot more reader interaction and other great things to get excited about. I'll keep you posted!
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