You know when you see something that just makes you wonder how it got there? Life’s full of those moments.
Like this:
Given Australia’s (highly limited) history, how is it possible to already have ruins? Less than 25 minutes out of Melbourne, no less. Judging by the size of the chimney, it used to be quite a large building, too. I assume it used to be a kitchen, but who lived there? And, why did they let it fall to ruin?
I’m guessing people probably took the bricks to use for other buildings, but I wonder why they even decided to rip the place down in the first place. Very strange.
Otherwise, more geocaching. Our first stop took us to a nicely secluded picnic area near an old bridge:
It’s interesting to see how places develop. The cache was originally planted around two years ago. Since then, a house has been built across the river and another place built just across the road. What used to be an isolated spot has now been developed into a common parkland.
Driving by GPS, we decided to try and find a cache in the You Yangs national park. We came in the back entrance, but figured it couldn’t be too hard to find, given that it was only around 2.4 kilometres away. Big mistake. The first 1.6 kilometres were fine, right up until we hit the hill. We decided to try and climb over it by following the roo trails. No such luck - we got half-way up and couldn’t make it any further. A machete and a healthy disregard for the environment could probably have seen us over the summit, but we had neither. So, it meant an about-face and back to the car. Still, we got some decent photos:
After re-entering the park from the main entrance, we discovered that the access road we needed was closed. So, a long walk later, we finally found the cache.
No sunburn this time though!
Some other photos from the previous day:
Riding a bike is good. I need to do it more.