McKillops Bridge - Delegate River Diversion Tunnel - Vic High Country
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The 2nd part of my recent trip.
I left Wilsons Hut and the Victoria Star Gold mining area and headed towards McKillop's Bridge before taking a detour to the Delegate River Diversion Tunnel. This is a very interesting area, with very little history on who, how or when this 80mt tunnel was actually built.
Then it's onward towards the Deddick Valley and the McKillops Bridge with a short stop over at Amboyne Suspension Bridge. I then crossed the McKillops Bridge and camped at the McKillops Bridge NP campground.
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Snowy river country absolutely spectacular.
It sure is mate, always worth taking a drive through that area. 👌
Awesome, can’t wait for the next one,don’t forget your go pros!😂😂😂
Cheers Alan, I’ll be sure not to get distracted so easily this time. 🤦🏽
Your vids are some of the best Aussie touring vids on RUclips,, no silly cooking segments (If I want to see someone cooking I’ll watch a proper chef) just off road driving and places of interest . Keep up the good work Gav . 👍🇦🇺🍺
Cheers Luke, but I’m starting to think you don’t watch much RUclips? 😂😂
Seriously…. Thanks for the positive feedback mate, I appreciate it, and thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment.
So you don’t like the snag cooking segments ?? 😂
@@aguyandhistroopy No issues with your snag cooking Gav , what shits me is 4WD videos and 80% of it is someone cooking . 😂😂
P.S. Not a fan of hipsters that drink IPA . Hahaha
@@HLsab I’m definitely not a hipster mate … and you won’t see much more then a few snags and a steak being cooked in my so called cooking segments.
Recently toured that area and can't wait to go back. The Deddick River valley in particular was awesome. Same with Little River. Spectacular country that hardly anyone visits.
It is a special place, and I think isn’t that busy as it’s along way from the capital cities, but to far for them to get there for a weekend.
Would of loved to go back down and camp at Little River Junction to camp, but wasn’t going to risk the troopy.
I’ll be back there again that’s for sure. 👍🏼
Thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment ! 👍🏼
Top notch Gav, glad you didn't lose your footage and go pro. That'd suck !
I would have been devastated, the troopy hasn’t been driven that hard in a long time !!
Thanks for taking the time out to watch and comment ! 👍🏼
First rate stuff
Cheers Mate. 👍🏼
Great stuff, plenty of ideas for weekend getaways once i finally get my act into gear!
So much to see out there it not funny… but as you said, just need to get yourself into gear, but I’m glad I can help you with a few ideas.
So good!
Having a beer with my brother last night, and we both agreed that these vids are the best. None of this crap of baggin other cars, overkill on the whoohoos, just solid content that you can use if you were putting your own trip together.
Appreciate the upload
I don't mind the cooking side of things :D
Jim
Hahaha…. Cheers Jim, I honestly enjoy these sort of episodes over the full on 4x4ing, and you definitely won’t see or hear me carrying on when out on the tracks. I hope you get to make it to a few of these spots mate.
Thanks again for the support and taking the time out to comment.
Another great video Gav, and one of my favourite places, I agree with you on the campground, very average and a fair trek to the river. Must be some photography voodoo happening up there, when i was there a few months ago I lost all my pics of the bridge when my sd card corrupted,☹ although now I've a reason to go back there.😀
Thanks Mick… its up there for me also, it’s not a place that you need a reason to go back to. I’ll be back again for sure, it’s a good detour to get home from the Snowy 2.0
Nothing worse then losing content, it’s always seems to be happening to me lately 🤦🏽
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment mate 👍🏼
Another ripper couple of episode ls mate, footage and editing is 👌 definitely due to a rundown vid of the Troopy and your setup 👍
Thanks mate, I’ve tried a couple of times to do a run down of the troopy, but I’ve never liked what I filmed.
Have big plans for the troopy, it’s always a work in progress. 👍🏼
Enjoying the videos you're putting up, down to earth and no million dollar rigs..
A while back you asked if anyone was interested in a trip - I'm in Bairnsdale for work for the next couple of weeks if you'd like to catch up and see if I'm bush worthy enough to join you on a trip.
Hey Jokkles, glad your enjoying them mate.
Feel free to shoot me a message on Messenger. I’m in town for a week at the moment as it’s my break, but for family reasons I’m not hitting the tracks, but I’m more then happy to arch up. Even more so if your a builder !? 🤷🏼🤣
I knew 100% this video was going to be awesome and the drone footage just absolutely seals the deal
Thanks Muddy. I had that much drone footage it wasn’t funny, drove over the bridge a dozen times. 😂😂 can only use so much of it. 🤦🏽
Thanks for watching mate. 👍🏼
Good vid mate👍
Thanks mate, appreciate you taking the time out to watch !👍🏼
Thank you.a great video
My pleasure. Thanks for watching. 👍🏼
Sitting here on a Saturday night and don’t think I will see anything better on the tele this evening. I have watched a few of your videos now and really enjoy the way you just poke around, having a look. As for the diversion tunnel, it amazes me how much hard work they were prepared to put in with no guarantee of success. There is similar at Sofala.
Thanks for the kind words mate, I’m glad your enjoying the content.
The old school guys definitely knew how to work hard. Not much history on that tunnel diversion, be good to know if they pulled a bit of gold out of there.
A few of them around the VHC that I’ve found.
Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Nice one mate, great trip. Lucky you got that gopro back 😅
Yeah, I was driving the troopy hard to get back there! 🤦🏽😂
Great episode again Gav, great area up that way. I reckon they must of pulled a shit load of gold out of there to make the effort of that tunnel worth it.
Do yourself a favour and get a 270 awning, ive got a 180 myself with the walls and never have to worry about getting wet even in the most severe rain. So easy to set/pack up also.
Thanks Damo, you’d like to hope they pulled a lot of gold out of it. Bloody lot of work for no reward. Just not much info in it anywhere.
Waiting on the new 23Zero Falcon 270 to drop in Aus. Definitely be grabbing one.
Gav you and your bloody GoPro, where that diversion channel was dug the old diggers must of got some gold from the river system. Nice part of world up there as well, keep up the excellent work there mate. May get back down there one day cheers Gav
Thanks Guys, you’d like to think that they done alright out of it, shame there isn’t much history on that area.
It’s definitely a nice place, I can’t get enough of the Snowy Region and Mckillops Bridge.
Thanks for taking the time out to comment. 👍🏼
@@aguyandhistroopy too good Gav, just doing the Matilda Way here in QLD, been to Charleville, Cunnamulla and now just arrived St George
@@The_Travelling_Jonoberries have to get down to Nindigully, Pub then keep heading Hebel, and down to Garwin, to the Sheepyard inn, Club in the scrub, and the Glengarry Hilton, that if you like ya country pubs.
Hi Gav. Another great video certainly makes you appreciate what's in your backyard. 👍keep the vids coming.
True Andy… between living where I do and working in the Snowy Mountains, I’m not complaining, definitely have some cracking spots to go visit.
Thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment. 🍻
Love the vids as always mate. We hit up this campsite late last year. Shit load of ants, especially at the Little River junction campground further downstream. We found a spot to squeeze through and drive in, setup swag under awning a tad closer to the fire pits.
I remember watching that episode. Bloody ants everywhere.🤦🏽 you guys have been a bit quiet of late?
Hope all is good.
Thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment. 👍🏼
Quality as always Krusty... you should do a video on haunted stream. Heard it's in alright condition
Thanks Boomba … they have done a lot of work to it recently. I’ve always wanted to do it, rode bikes through there back in the late 80’s.
Thought it was a seasonal closure, but I could be wrong?
@@aguyandhistroopy
100% Hubs,
closed from 15/6 to 2/11
@@lucamancini3147 cheers Luca, thought so. 👍🏼
Mate, I was thinking, "What, no footage of the bridge?". I should of known better. Ha ha. What an amazing structure and feat of engineering. Although it's a pain sometimes, I reckon it's better to set up camp preparing for the worst weather situation, than to be left scrambling for equipment when " The big one" hits. Top show as usual and the look of relief and the TF moment when the Gopro was still in situ was absolute gold. I'm sure we've all had one of those.
That it is, I can’t get enough of the Mckillops Bridge, an amazing feat to build that back in the day.
My family’s sawmill supplied the running boards that are on the bridge at present. Actually supplied it twice as the first lot dropped off was stolen, someone had a great deck around that area. 😂😂
Definitely better to be prepared than not, looking forward to getting a 270 awning in the near future.
Thanks for watching all the way to the end of the episode to see the drone footage of the bridge. Thought no one would hang in there that long to see it. 🤷🏼😂
Cheers for the comment👍🏼
That is cool. Are your family still in the sawmill game? There's something about wood that you just don't get from steel. Hopefully in the warmer months I'll get back to the bridge and spend a good week there camping and just exploring the the area on foot. And some fishing of course. The 270 awning sounds a treat. Thanks for the reply👍👍.
@@stevenelliott155 nah, last mill in Eden was sold a couple of years back, had mills from Poweltown ( Vic ) to Cooma ( NSW ) back in the day. I didn’t have much to do with them as I moved to the Goldy at 25.
Prob a good thing, still have all my fingers. 😂
Gee it must have been a big company then. What brought you back then? The call of the hills. It sorta gets in your blood I think.
@@stevenelliott155 yeah it was back in the day.
Always wanted to come back to my hometown, but it wasn’t in the circumstances i was hoping for, my mum had a major bleed on the brain. So I moved back to be closer to her and help her out.
Great to see another Vid mate.
After being in SE Asia.
So nice to see our beautiful country again through your video
Have to love Oz. But nothing wrong with being over in SE Asia… be a good change I reckon. 👍🏼
Thanks for watching .
One of my favourite destinations in the VHC. So remote and natural. Awesome vid mate. 🍻
Thanks Adam, it’s a awesome area that’s for sure, was good to see some different spots around that area as well.
Great vid mate. I spent 1984 up in the Kimberly doing diamond exploration work, a lot of it was helicopter based etc. We had local indigenous reps with us to show sacred sites and where to avoid drilling etc. they called themselves black fellas and we were white fellas. Pretty sure it’s still accepted among black fellas and isn’t naughty or derogatory.
Nudibanches, 1984 is a long time ago now, the world isn’t the same place as then.
It will only take one person to see the Black Fellas sign and complain and it will be changed, prob lucky that not many city folk-vegans ( can I say that 🤷🏼 ) get out that way !! 😂😂
That would have been a pretty good gig out in the Kimberley’s 👍🏼
@@aguyandhistroopy true, I guess someone is always getting offended these days at something. 🤣🤣
@@nudibanches yep… people are easily offended these days. 🤦🏽
Enjoying your content. So many great places to explore. Glad you got your gopro back, could see the relief on your face. Cheers for the episode
Thanks mate, yeah… so much relief when it was still in the guard rail. So much content on that one GoPro.
Great video. Thanks. I remember doing that narrow track down to McKillip’s bridge about 25 years ago in a Commodore. And it was super narrow. And I agree you wouldn’t want to see anyone coming the other way, let alone if someone was towing something.
Would of been a bit worse back then to I’mguessing ?
Yeah, you would need balls of steel to back out of some of them spots.
Bloody ripper vid mate. Some awesome drone footage Some more crackin spots.
How’s the luck with the go pro hey. 👌
Can imagine the old heart would of being pumping. 😂😂
That relief when you seen it still hanging there 🫢
Great job mate. Always hanging out for the next video 👌
Flat ground at a made campground. Unheard of 😂😂😂
Cheers guys, you are lucky over West, bloody flat most places you go !! 😂😂
Very grateful the GoPro was still there, don’t know what I would of done… probably drive to the closest pub and had a 3 day bender !! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
Thanks for the support and thanks for taking the time out to comment. 👍🏼
@@aguyandhistroopy a 3 day bender sounds alright too 😜😜😂😂
@@reddustadventures bloody oath… until the 4 day 🤦🏽. Too old for that shit these days.
Great episode mate, looking forward to the next one…….safe travels 🍺🍺
Cheers Alan, thanks for watching mate. 👍🏼
Just stumbled on your channel. Really good content mate, well done, new subscriber 🍺
Cheers Seabee, appreciate you taking the time out to watch and thanks for the Sub.👍🏼
Cracking video awesome scenery and camera work
Cheers Mate, appreciate the positive feedback. Thanks for taking the time out to watch and comment. 👍🏼
Nice aerials mate. Certainly a lovely part of the world. Glad you got the GoPro back. Have you thought about a portable fire pit? Pretty handy when it rains and you can move it where you like. Was going to mention it on the Yarrongabilly comments but forgot. Andy Newton and I bought a Darche 450 each, 201 stainless, well made and last for ever. Folds up to nothing. Just a thought. Thanks again mate. Cheers, BobbyB.
Thanks Bobby, it’s pretty easy to film mate. I was peaking about the GoPro, would of been a waste of a few days touring around.
I just brought a Winnerwell portable fire pit for my last trip. It was cheap, takes up no room, used it for 2 nights. I reckon I’ll buy the same as the Darche but in the 23zero. Want to try keep a lot of my gear the one brand, hopefully for future endorsements! 🤷🏼👍🏼
Winnerwell
Once again thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment! 👍🏼
Another ripper Video. I felt for you when you left the go pro. Not the cost but the footage! I would like to think it would be left alone if someone found it but I doubt it this day and age!
Hay mate, thanks appreciate it.
Yeah, I was only worried about the cottage I was going to lose.
I doubt it would of been there if someone had seen it, things aren’t like they use to be in the old days !
Another great video mate! Appreciate the effort you put in to them. Safe travels 👍🏼
Thanks Reidy, appreciate you taking the time out to watch and comment 👍🏼
Nice vid mate. Enjoy your vids every sat morning. What do you think about the new 2.8L auto troopy announced couple of days ago
Cheers mate, glad to be a part of your Sat morning routine!
It doesn’t bother me to much either way, I’ll most likely never own one, but I do like the retro look of the round headlights that’s for sure… but unsure of the bonnet how it looks so high, almost like a Jimny on roides. 😂😂
Nice one again bloke...
Cheers Blair. Thanks for watching 👍🏼
Lucy from the Wandering Newbie called you a Guy and his Prado😝
🤦🏽… well at least she got the Guy part right..👍🏼🤣.,
I’ll have to have a word with her.
Which episode of hers was this ?
Good videos love watching ya thought the same thing a bout the camp ground how hard is it to plan a good camp ground
Guess they trying to leave it as nature as possible, but not hard to level a few spots out for a tent. Might stop people from camping illegally on the Snowy River under the bridge.
Appreciate you watching Ray, and thanks for taking the time out to comment. 👍🏼
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Getting awesome on the editing. This was a mint story. I'm here in the baron Pilbara wishing for some of your winter bush ... but you can keep the rain. 😂
Thanks Troopstan, it’s hit and miss I think with the editing. When I think it’s ordinary people love it.🤷🏼I’d love to be in the Pilbara mate, love the red dirt.
Thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment! 👍🏼
Gotta love 'find your wallet moments'!
It’s a everyday moment for me these days… for ever putting things done and forgetting where they are !! 🤦🏽
But so grateful it was still where I thought I left it ?!? 😂😂
Camping solo in the scrub keeps me interested and alive. The silence and the smells, birdlife and animals. F*ck Bali or a cruise.
Yeah, it’s the way to go, definitely can be a little nerve-racking sometimes… but drink enough beers and you normally sleep through everything! 🤣
Glad you managed to get the camera back mate, all that footage is irreplacable, let alone the $$ value of the camera. Waiting for the video of you camping in the snow and getting up in the shorts and putting the pluggers on still.... You know it's winter right? :-)
That’s it Jase, losing the content would be worse then replacing the camera.
It hasn’t been much of a winter up here at Snowy 2.0 but I’ll wear the pluggers in the snow just for you mate if we get any more this year that is !!
@@aguyandhistroopy yeah winter seems to be turning early this year
@@OffTheBeatenPathAus feels like summer up here in the hills at Snowy 2.0.
Great vid and has given me some ideas for spots to run my detector over. Was searching up delegate diversion tunnel and your link came up. Have you tried looking for the yellow stuff at all? New subscriber. Cheers
@@Big_Daz thanks for the sub mate I appreciate it.
I’ve been told I should have a crack but I’m time poor when I’m filming, and if I did try I wouldn’t be giving it my all. Have a few mates that are getting into it so you never know one day maybe.
Once again, thanks for watching and taking the time out to comment ! 👍🏼
I found the camping ground is a fair way from the river great spot but crap camping iv always thought
Yeah the camping side of things is a real let down. I was going to camp on the river below the bridge, but knowing my luck I’d get caught and cop a fine !
Thanks for another great video, appreciate the hard work you put in with your camera shots, must keep you fit running backwards and forward doing them , in regard to that track name, Bendoc hasn't become woke yet, thank god
Thanks mate…As you know Murls, a lot of work goes into filming the episodes, makes you wonder some times if it’s worth the effort.
Bendoc hasn’t changed much, I doubt it ever will mate get!
Thanks for watching, and taking the time to comment mate. 👍🏼
@@aguyandhistroopy Just to let you know i have been bing watching your video's, they're great, so i have bought a couple of stubbie holders and a sticker , cheers.
@@Murls to easy David, just seen that order come through. I’ll get it on the way as soon as possible. When you talking to Daniel ( Bush TV ) tell him I’m still waiting for the stubbie holder he owes me, bloody tight arse, doesn’t like giving things away for free !! 😂😂
@@aguyandhistroopy I will let him know ha ha if he doesn't i will buy one off him to send to you , you 2 should do a joint video together like what aussie arvos and fire to fork did, i reckon it would be a ripper, 2 Larrikins in the bush would be really funny.
@@aguyandhistroopy I have just paid Daniel to send you a stubbie holder ha ha , and i sent him a message to let him know , cheers looking forward to the next video
Have you done ingeegoodbe track mcfarlane saddle/ coberas i rhink its called
Nah mate, it’s been closed for a few years now, as well as Cobberas Track. But saying that I have been up that way this year. But I’m still 100% sure they will never open again.
Don’t be fooled either of you come in from Suggan Buggan at McFarlanes Track and think you can drive it as there is only a road closed roadwork sign there, it’s gated at Cobbera’s entry on Limestone Rd, unsure if you can get out via Cowombat Track.