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Unfortunately, Bonang hasn’t sold an ice-cream (or anything else) for a long time.
The only sign of any store was a painted sign on a derelict corrugated iron shed.
We headed back to camp along the main road.

Back in camp John had had an interesting afternoon photographing a family of large goannas
roaming through the camp looking for food scraps. There were three in the group the largest
being over 1.5m long. One was still wandering around when we returned.

Some headed down to river for another swim whilst others began preparing their evening meals.

One of the “visitors” was keen to
checkout my campsite.
Nice nails !!

Monday – Mt Seldom Seen Fire Tower and Buchan for Fuel

Monday night was to be roast night so a short morning trip was planned to the Mt Seldom Seen
Fire Tower. The Hulses and Odds elected to have a day in camp relaxing and also to celebrate
Connors Birthday.

Peter Yinn decided to return home to celebrate Melbourne Cup Day with his family.

After a leisurely breakfast the rest of the crew headed back up the short track to the main road.
Turning left this time we stopped first at a lookout looking over the Little River Gorge, at a viewing
platform at the end of a 400m walk.
The Gorge is one of the deepest in Victoria at 500m deep and 4km long, The Wulgulmerang
Creek plunges 300m from a hidden chasm in the gorge wall opposite the lookout, unfortunately it
was dry.

Continuing on we stopped at some small falls near the Park entrance for morning tea before
heading to Mt Seldom Seen. The drive up to the fire tower was a 2wd drive road with a steep
pinch at the end. The views from the top were well worth the visit.

To the North you could again see snow in NSW, the Ramshorn near Native Dog Flat that some of
us had climbed the previous week, the Forlorn Hope Wilderness Area to the West and mountains
stretching off in all directions.

After soaking in the scenery, the group headed to Buchan to refuel and have a burger for lunch.
(The biggest burgers I have seen in a while).

Suitably refuelled we made our way back to camp to prepare the evenings roast.
(We had passed another possible fuel supply much closer to camp at Karoodah Camp some 4km
South of Gelantipy.

The store looked closed as we passed, Chris Kurz made some enquiries on his return home.

It is commercial camp and cattle property that does sell fuel, you need to pull in and contact them
to open the fuel bowsers.)

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