I probably posted this to UER a few years back.
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I went for another walk! I went for a walk for a couple of hours - this time it was the other side of the Yallourn open-cut/power station that I mentioned earlier.
Bongarse and I had clipped the edge of the area when we found KLP2.7 and I always meant to head back.
I'd suggested to Bongarse that it was the outskirts of what was left of Yallourn (Yallourn sat where the open-cut mine is now located), however after my visit I asked a few questions and found out that what I saw was the remnants of Morwell West.
There is a brand-new fence around the property since Bong and I went there - probably something to do with the open-cut being extended and the power company's license being extended by 25 years.
It was a nice walk, but not much on offer as far as urban exploration goes, but I'll bore you with it anyway
Pics from phone.
The first thing I noticed was that all the signs and cars ALL had bullet holes in them whether they were newer signs...
or older signs...
I walked along an old unsealed road (probably Old Melbourne Road) for about 20 minutes before starting to find signs of Morwell West.
old sections of rail track.
The story I was told has the workers ripping up the tracks and chucking the rails on the train as it crawled out of Morwell West.
There were fence-lines where the houses stood.
A foot-path to nowhere.
The closest things to buildings were a few old sheds that you couldn't get into due to the black-berry bushes.
Bath anyone?
Another old thing!
A metal cable that was used as part of a fence cuts into a gum tree.
It looked like a cyclone had been through the area and people were caught trying to escape in their cars (switch off now if rusting cars do not excite you
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I watched an echidna getting stuck into a bull-ants mound for five minutes...
...before reaching the open-cut (or as close to it as I needed to go).
I then went and met the others... but that's another story!
Cheers,
Doug
By the way, the above pics are only half the cars that were there!