As we twisted and turned along the dirt roads up the mountain and down again, I noticed that the letterbox of choice out there was the fridge. An antiques dealer would be in heaven driving along that road. Some of those fridges were seriously old. You can fit quite a lot of mail into an old fridge. One bloke does not seem to have many friends. His mailbox was a small microwave. Cannot fit much in there!
I mentioned the very tall trees the other day, I forgot to say that for a large part of the time both them and us were in cloud. There was misty rain off and on all day but it was rather eerie to be in the clouds. You would come around yet another one of the everlasting bends and there in front of you the view disappeared because of cloud. I won't call it low lying cloud as we were seriously high up ourselves. A few twists and turns later and we would be lower down and the cloud would move up above us for a bit. Added another dimension to the challenge of the drive.
Now this area is wombat territory. We have seen some very large wombats...all dead! How on earth anyone could hit one given they are fairly slow moving and visibly large is beyond me. We did get quite a scare coming back down the mountain, a 4WD nearly collected us on the gravel road, they were really hiking along and we had to veer into the table drain on the high side of the road to avoid a collision, so maybe that could explain the dead wombats!
According to the story boards we have read around this area, it is also home to lyrebirds. We have not seen any of them but we have seen lots of kookaburras, black cockatoos and several species of colourful parrots along with the usual assortment of magpies, crows, native pigeons and sparrows. East Gippsland must have a good annual rainfall, every thing is very green. No dried out paddocks here. Just lots of lush green grass with contented cattle sitting under the shade of a tree watching the demented tourists go past.
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