Photography Trip to Lake Eucumbene
ATV, quad bike, parked in the weird landscape of Lake Eucumbene
G’day there.
Well, it wasn’t much of a day on Good Friday, for photographing or riding, with the sky heavily overcast and showers visible around the landscape, threatening to fall close handy.
However, with the bike motor having just been rebuilt, the urge to give it a run was powerful.
Lake Eucumbene is quite large. Several years of drought and poor snowfalls have left the water level about 60 metres or 200 feet below the high water mark.
In the steep places it was a 200 metre ride from the high water mark to the present shoreline, but from the access point near Fryingpan, there was a five kilometre ride along an old road that had been flooded for near on 50 years.
It was amazing to see the culverts still there, under the road, many old fence posts, and even a new, galvanized gate, hung on the original gatepost and chained to the matching, old gatepost.
In the bed of this man made lake, while the landscape is by no means wilderness, it sure is different. The granite rocks are bleached clean by long submersion, and the dead trees posses a ghostly appearance.
Lake Eucumbene is definately a place to revisit.
Photography Trip to Lake Eucumbene on Wilderness Travel.
