Take a trip along the Golden Way with Geoff and Club 4×4, starting in Daylesford and winding through Hepburn Regional Park, Upper Loddon State Forest and finish up at Castlemaine.
| Club 4x4 Trip Notice | |
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| Trip Location | |
| Location: | Victorian Gold Fields |
| Location and/or Description of Trip (Itinerary): | This is a re-run of a trip Mick ran a few years ago and is a nice drive through the Victoria's heritage gold fields winding its way from Daylesford to Castlemaine on forest roads and tracks. Leaving Sailors Falls we will travel on tracks through the Hepburn Regional Park. Continuing on we pass the Swiss-Italian 19th century Lavandula Farm and at Cricket Willow. We then travel through the Dry Diggings State Forest on forest roads before visiting the village of Yandoit. Crossing the Midland Highway, we then travel on forest roads and tracks through the Upper Loddon State Forest to Vaughan Mineral Springs. Next we then trek through the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park where we will visit the ruins of the largest water wheel in the world, being the Garfield Waterwheel and given time, will walk the Eureka Reef Walk. The Castlemaine Diggings was once the worlds richest shallow alluvial goldfield, with the landscape we will travel through being reflective of this history. |
| Start Location: | Sailors Falls Mineral Spring |
| Finish Location: | Castlemaine |
| Brief directions to meeting point: | Sailors Falls Mineral Spring is approached either along the Western Highway via Ballan. The distance from Melbourne either way is approximately 115 km or about 1 hr and 15 minutes drive. |
| Trip Times | |
| Start Date: | 25/08/2018 |
| Start Time: | 08:45 AM |
| End Date: | 25/08/2018 |
| End Time: | 05:00 PM |
| Date after which Prospective Members may book on the trip: | 15/08/2018 |
| Trip Details | |
| Trip Rating: | Easy/Medium |
| Trip Planning: | Planning based on a recent reconnaissance trip |
| Maximum number of vehicles permitted: | 10 |
| Any specific requirements? | AT Tyres and the usual recovery equipment. |
| Trip Leader | |
| Trip Leader Name: | Geoff Aldridge |
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