Tarra-Bulga National Park + other holliday mapping
Posted by Biogenesis_ on 30 June 2008 in English.First diary post, this is mostly rambles but hopefully someone might like reading it.
While on hollidays in Victoria I decided to do as much mapping as I could during my everyday travels. On the first day all the streets in Port Albert were mapped, along with the park, boatramp, toilets and the old port walking trail. Food and fuel is yet to be mapped.
A couple of days later I went up to the Tarra-Bulga National park and did the all the "touristy" walks around there (the suspension bridge, fern gully walk etc). The longer fire trails such as the Wild Cherry Trail, the old Balook to Yarram road and Diaper Track are best done by someone on 2 wheels (or 4WD where allowed, wild cherry is in the park and behind a locked gate, balook to yarram rd and diaper track can be driven on West of Bulga Road).
The Tarra Valley walk was also attempted, but GPS reception is shocking along the walk, even my Legend HCx had more error then the size of the track! But an attempt at the map was made anyway, the picnic tables and toilets are there, even if they're 50m off. In the process a good trace of Tarra Valley Road was collected either way.
Other roads mapped included Bulga Road, Lower Carrajung Lower Road, Kees Rd and Napier Rd in Won Wron State Forest (we collected firewood, I took the GPS).
The town of Yarram is half-done, I did ~90% of the roads on the West of the main street and ~20% of those right of the main road. This was an exercise in using photo-logging which worked rather well.
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