You Yangs Regional Park

This park is well known to myself for the great MTB trails, but the Park also has some great walking trails.
Distance - 10 klm walk
Duration - 1 hr 47mins

Started from the Park Office car park along the Big Rock Walk, up to the granite rock peaks,  then crossed over to the East-West Walk looping around & returning back down the Big Rock trail. Sadly the Flinders Peak steps track is still closed due to flood damage . More info on Park here

Rokeby to Neerim Rail Trail

We started our ride at Rokeby (north of Warragul and well known as the first sprint of the Baw Baw Classic) The trail winds its way from Rokeby up to Neerim, following a cutting of a section of the old Warragul to Noojee rail line (1890-1958) The first 4km of trail passes through  bushland of the Crossover Regional Park, and passes the original site of the Crossover station. The trail then deviates up and around the Crossover Trestle Bridge (restoration not complete) and, after receiving some much needed directions from local farmer,  we continued up into Neerim (along the yet to be completed trail) The last section of trail follows the Main road and provides fantastic valley views of Mount Baw Baw and Bunyip State Forest.

It was my first ride for some time,
Ride details at Map my Ride



great to see locals so dedicated to helping visitors enjoy their trails especially the Friends of Crossover Trestle Bridge,

Discovery Trail East Gippsland

picturesque ride that follows the route of the historic Mississippi Creek Tramway near Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia

George Bass Coastal Walk in Gippsland Victoria

We accessed the 'George Bass Coastal Walk' from the railtrail opposite the Kilcunda pub on the Bass Highway, After 1hr 30mins along a slashed grass track for 9km on the cliff tops with spectacular panoramic views of Bass Strait, perpendicular bluffs, beautiful secluded beaches & wildlife, we arrived at the Punchbowl lookout platform, On the return to Kilcunda we stopped a while at the beach walk section. weather conditions were favourable for hiking but a little coolish to backpack beach towel and bathers (waters not recommended for swimming anyway)

(ps. George Bass was the first European explorer to sight the Victorian coastline in 1797)

section of Dandenong Creek Trail

Nothing more relaxing than cycling along beside water. As work took me to Melbourne on the weekend, I planned a bike ride along the Bay trail, but I must say if you're not riding solo, the fun of conversation is reduced by weekend crowds. Hence, I wasn't disappointed when we decided to investigate the Dandenong Creek Trail, with overcrowding not being an issue, it was a most enjoyable relaxing flat ride.

Distance- 27km Carrum to Dandenong (and return)
Surface- mostly smooth Gravel
song title on video- 'Here She Comes' by Skipping Girl Vinegar
 (band named after my childhood love a Vinegar Sign with neon animated Skipping Girl)

MTB'ing around Foster in Victoria

The township of Foster in South Gippsland has a great network of singletrack. Accessed just off the Great Southern Rail Trail is the 'Cement Hill Natural Features Reserve', with lots of up and down floaty single tracks and a fun trail seesaw. Exploring further into the bushland we found some technical sections with unavoidable tree root jumps, bridge crossings, energy zapping climbs & epic descents. There was also lots of my preferred gentle meandering around bush walking tracks & rail trails. Foster is well worth a visit.

view Map data here

ps ... town has two bakeries

Keep Climbing Those Hills

We know the only way to a little fitness is to keep climbing hills, so we decided to spend a couple of hours around Erica mtb park, although not my favorite surface (and elevation LOL) the trails were fantastic. Even the trails the Gippsland MTB club held an event on (in wet conditions) last week were in good condition. We rode for 2.5 hours, including a lap of 'crazy snake' trail (video) and were both totally knackered, but will definitely be back,