The way points of this bicycle route:
There's a general store (the last for a while on this trip) and an old church. Worth a side trip to Hopkins Falls...
The falls are impressive when the falls are in flood, and pretty otherwise. I think in April? you can see baby eels (elvers) struggling up the falls. Late in the drought there's not a lot of flow. For some reason at the end of March 2008 there was a large round hay bale at the top of the falls, oops...
Straight ahead looks the road less travelled here - it does mean a bit of unsealed road after the forest. There's a pretty descent into the Framlingham Forest - regrowth after the 1983 fires I think.
At the end of the forest, there's some reasonable unsealed road through farmland, for 2 or 3 k's.
Back to the sealed road...
The township of Framlingham
Cross Mt Emu Creek, and turn left.
A pleasant undulating meander to The Sisters.
Always wanted to know what's at The Sisters. Now I know: not much. A hall, with the "Lone Pine" and some tennis courts.
Noorat, the birthplace of Alan Marshall. You can tackle the General Store for lunch, or take the bike path 6 km into Terang.
The Wheatsheaf hotel has great coffee.
You can take a walk up to Mt Noorat from the loop road on the left (look for the sign). The xeroscape/sculpture garden at Wigandia is open several times a year.
Have a look around the grounds of the former agricultural college.
Castle Carey road has the odd truck. Take care, especially on this first section.
A little safer but somewhat boring.
Have a look around Camperdown, then ride on, or jump a train three times a day each way.
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
A gentle, quiet county-road ride. I'm starting to replace parts of the Warrnambool train trip with backroads bike rides.
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Smooth, Intermediate, Low traffic, Safe, Rural, Scenic, Touring
