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Otways In 4WD: Traversing Through Bush Tracks (Via Carlisle River) by riverflows

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Otways In 4WD: Traversing Through Bush Tracks (Via Carlisle River)
The Otways forest is my *home* - hectares upon hectares of forest, with beautiful waterfalls, treeferns, bush tracks, lakes and tall trees leading down to the ocean. I'm so lucky to live by it, but to be honest, I've hardly even touched the surface of what it offers. Having an old Series Landrover called Buttercup has changed that somewhat, and we've been exploring different roads over the last few months with a view to creating quite a different map of the Otways for our memories.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/35dgoM3H-image.png)

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/l5zNjamx-image.png)


Take the drive to the 12 Apostles, for example. From where I live, the drive has always been fairly straight forward. Go west on the Princes Highway til you hit Colac, turn left and drive all the way to Beech Forest, turn right and drive through Lavers Hill towards Port Campbell. Two turnings, and about an hour and a half drive. 

But what if we traversed west to east and spent as little time on tarmac as possible? Where would the road take us then? 

Turns out some pretty beautiful places - sand tracks with stunning grass trees and their odd flowering spikes, for one. I didn't even know the Otways had sand tracks like that! 

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/WJU7uyES-image.png)

It'd also take us through beautiful farming land, dairy farms with stunning views across magnificent grassed valleys. 

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/m2ehYaTz-image.png)

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/0yFbm8CH-image.png)



We had a picnic at Carlisle River rec ground, cooking up a lovely feast of halloumi, tomatoes, mushrooms and asparagus - beats bacon and eggs anyday. One of the cool things about Australia is the free gas barbecues - even in the middle of nowhere! Find a recreation ground, and you'll be bound to find a tap and a free barbie. 

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/IBOHJt3J-image.png)

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/riverflows/8ifXWNL8-image.png)



Funny thing was, though we had never been there before, and there's only a handful of houses in town and a few beautiful big properties along the river, we actually MET a guy from there when he came over to pick up free bricks I had advertised. He'd bought a 10 acre property for 420K in March, moving in just before the first lockdown. He pretty much sits on his balcony and takes photos of platypus down by the river. Reckons he was bitten by a tiger snake a few months back, called the ambulance who took him to the nearest hospital and he was fine. He also reckons his property has *doubled in value* since then - everyone wants a treechange out of the city after strident lock down laws, I guess. There's some absolute paradisicial properties out there, river frontages and beautiful views. Still, a bit far out for us! 

If you're not pushed for time, I highly recommend zig zagging across country to get back to the city from down the coast - it's worth a day trip in itself. I don't think hardly anyone does it - people like to get to their destination as fast as possible, but you sure miss out on a lot on the way. 

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@galenkp ·
I was going to make a comment about the Otways, a most legit part of the world. Then I thought, nah I'll say something about the Landie, maybe a photography comment about it parked across the road in that shot with the trees...Then I saw the picnic food and I lost my train of thought. 

<sub>Legit looking foods!</sub>
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@riverflows ·
Haha yes, I do the best veggie fry up ever. You know, I love bacon, but try best not to eat it - but I tell you what, I don't need it with my fry up. Avo season's been dismal this year - very expensive! Treated myself to these - yummo. HOpe you are well mate. 
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@galenkp ·
Hey River me girl! 

Bloody avo's huh? I know what you mean! (Although I just had a big serve of two rye toasts loaded with smashed avo at a café and it was delish!)

We eat vego most days of the week, Faith all the time as she's vegetarian. It doesn't seem to affect us negatively. In fact, you find this surprising, I was raised strictly vegetarian until I moved out (booted out) of home at 17.5 years old. Mum was a vego, so we all were. It's just how it was. 

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@goldenoakfarm ·
Back dirt roads are the best for travel. We often hit the ones in Vermont during the heat of summer.
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@riverflows ·
Yes, summer roads can be quite busy! I hope you guys get a little trip in in the future when hubs gets better x
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@riverflows ·
thanks  @ybanezkim26 that's amazing. I did try to post through the app but I had trouble logging in. 
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@ybanezkim26 ·
I think because @martibis is doing some dev work to relaunch the app with new cool features.
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@revisesociology ·
It looks beautiful, I don't know why you'd go anywhere else! 
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@riverflows ·
You know what, we said the same thing. But it's easy to get sick of your own backyard! And sometimes you need to be far from home so you can't just go back - we'll be off on another roadtrip next week, it won't even take us out of state but still it'll be a bit further afield so you feel you can't go home and do the housework haha. 
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@stortebeker ·
This is sooooo cool! Reading your posts, looking at your pictures (including beautiful buttercup!), and imagining taking crazy dirt-road trips just puts an instant smile on my face. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience!
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@riverflows ·
You are so lovely! thankyou! We're taking another road trip next week - we didn't take half the amount we wanted to this year because of stupid covid shutting us down, but never mind. We'll just have to plan for the big one in two years or so. 
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@vincentnijman ·
Love this! I need myself a buttercup and a driver's license. Am getting tired of being in the same place for too long - and of all the restrictions - no matter how beatiful it is in this area of Portugal.

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