Reservoir Creek

I stumbled across this creek (literally) after a cross country walk in search of a good view of the Major Mitchell Plateau from the southeast. Having walked through some pretty thick bottle brush I decided to find an alternate route back to the car and headed downhill, hoping to walk along the creek and back to the road. 

As I got further down towards the creek the bush began to change, almost approaching rainforest vegetation. This shouldn't really have been any surprise since the Major Mitchell Plateau has an annual rainfall in the range of 1000-1200mm although this falls off quite rapidly as you move away from the mountains. But the summers are still quite dry so it is only in the very sheltered sections that any semblance of temperate rainforest exists.

It was an interesting walk, but not likely to be one to make it onto a bushwalker's must do list. There aren't really too many places that you can go in this part of the Grampians since any uphill walk would only get you to the bottom of a cliff and there are no tracks.