Good morning from Bright

Tawonga Gap lookout with the Bogong High Plains Range behind the township of Mount Beauty.

Mount Bogong from the road up to Falls Creek

Gaining altitude

Hydro-electricity power generated from a series of dams

Tree ferns were a feature of the drive

Falls Creek ski village

Pretty Valley Dam and Lake

The road to the trailheads skirts the lake

Basalt on a high point in the park

Crimson rosella

The track to Wallace’s Hut

Heliotrope moth on a paper daisy

Bogong High Plains

A lizard active on a warm day

Late flowering

Wallace’s Hut built by the Wallace brothers in 1889 – the oldest surviving cattleman’s hut in the Australian Alps

Inside the hut – wide flitches serve as floorboards

White-throated tree-creeper near Wallace’s Hut

Alpine daisy

Meadow argus

Katydid – the ground and grass was moving with the activity of insects.

Hotham to Bogong trail – walking at 1800 metres

Mountain katydid – a flightless insect

Threat display from the mountain katydid showing the wings –  not much uplift happening here.

The valley view from the Cope Hut track looking towards Kosciusko in the distance

Cope Hut – the first hut on the high plains built specifically for bushwalkers in 1929.

I could cope with this

Phebalium

The road across the high plains to Omeo

A range of rocks in the park include granites, schists and basalt. Fire damage to the snowgums.

Pretty Valley Lake

Outlander Season 2

Rockin’ Robin …..well, a robin on a rock.

The road down – the extent of the 2005 fires

Back through the mountain ash and tree fern forests

Sunset illuminating Mount Bogong

Night over Mount Beauty township

Moonrise