on sunday we ended up hiking over 20km. we didn't really intend to. it started out as just a short walk to test out some more of the spring water and see how far it was from hepburn springs to daylesford (the next town). it was 4km by road but i knew there was a trail that weaved its way along a gorge and a river. we got lost a couple times (due to lack of signs when the trail forked several times) and then we ended up a couple kms west of hepburn springs. we started to walk back into town and we saw a sign pointing down a side street saying "1.4 km to blowhole historic site". i knew that was along the trail to daylesford so we decided to check out the blowhole and look at the maps there to daylesford. we got there and it said 90 min to daylesford so we decided to go for it. we made it to the trail exit we wanted to get into daylesford and started walking up the road we knew would take us into town. the maps were horrible that we looked at, we got lost (again), got bad/vague directions from a couple people but we eventually ended up in daylesford. we added up the distances along the trail and it was 16.8km (not including the fact we deviated from that and got lost a couple times). there are no buses on weekends between the 2 towns so we decided after getting a snack and a couple drinks that we would walk back to hepburn springs to try some food at a thai place i had my eye on all weekend. its definately a much shorter walk back along the road. the hike was pretty amazing though with all the different trees and lots of birds and a few other random animals

this bird (fancy pigeon of some sort?) was on the side of the road at some point on our walk. we think they were domestic cuz they couldn't fly very well. they were walking around looking like that (looks uncomfortable)


this sheep was in someones front yard just chowing down on some grass. we're not sure if he is their sheep (there was no fence keeping him in and he wasn't tied up either) or if he escaped from a neighbours farm. looked pretty funny though.


more pretty leaves.


waiting for the bus to take us to daylesford (they only run every couple hours or so and only on weekdays)

i put some more photos from heburn springs on my flikr site (click link on sidebar) for those that are interested