Mount Buffalo

Mt Buffalo is possibly the best place in Victoria to introduce people to the high country. This small national park has good roads and lots of great short walks. The scenery is spectacular and it's all so close to the road. When I first drove around a corner of the road and saw The Cathedral, I instantly recognised it from a poster I had seen that I thought was taken in some remote location, and yet here it was right next to the road.

I spent that first night at The Cathedral shooting various angles of this granite outcrop. The first from a comfortable granite boulder, while sipping port and watching the Bogong moths take off at sunset. The second by moonlight (7 hour exposure) with the southern cross circling behind the boulders and the last at dawn as I staggered out of the car just in time to stop the night exposure from over-exposing.

It was something of a brief stay as I was racing around the state taking shots for the National Parks poster submission and I was trying to cover as much of Victoria as possible in two weeks. But in that brief stay I climbed Eurobin Falls (stupid idea, it's really steep and there is no view of Crystal Brook Falls) and checked out the magnificent chalet and the adjacent view of The Gorge. I'll be back......

And yes I came back.. Here is my second trial of quicktime VR panoramas.