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The Pinnacle Walk Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park |
| The Pinnacle Walk:- This walk starts at the Wonderland car park, which now has a toilet a welcome addition since our last visit, quite a few years ago now. Our walk goal was to walk the direct route to the Pinnacle and then take the longer track back to the Wonderland car park, overall a walk of around 5.7 km. It's a hard climb to the top as it's uphill all the way, which makes it much easier on the way back - always a silver lining! This walk has a loads of awe moments all along the track and especially at the end. It's a must do Grampians walk. |
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| Wonderland Car Park - gets full quite quickly. | Toilets - Great to see and use! | Start of the walk |
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| Grand Canyon to the left, alternative route to the right | Grand Canyon closed - up the alternative track | |
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| Looking towards Chatauqua Peak | Haven't gone far but the car park seems small | Smooth rock climb ahead |
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| Top of the Grand Canyon - closed for 18 months now -why so long? | Inspecting the Grand Canyon | |
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| Back on the track - heading up again | Uphill, but easy going | |
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| Rock formations are always interesting | Smooth walking ahead on the steel boardwalk | |
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| Cool Chamber | More steps | |
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| Amazing boulders | ||
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| Turn right for the long way to the top- we went left | No water at Bridal Veil Falls | |
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| Another amazing rock formation | ||
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| Approaching Silent Street | Descending the stairs to Silent Street | |
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| Climbing out of Silent Street | ||
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| Looking at the recent DELP burns | ||
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| The brown areas are the result of recent burns in the area | ||
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| Signs - almost at the top | ||
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| Selfie - waiting our opportunity to get to the lookout | ||
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| At the top - looking towards Lake Bellfield | At the top - looking towards Chatauqua Peak | |
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| A kind person offered to take our picture - thanks mate! | Looking back down the lookout | |
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| Rather retracing our steps we went the long way back | Rocky at first | |
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| Easy going - great rock views | Missed the nerve test - to dangerous for anyone these days | |
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| Turn right or it will be a very long walk! | ||
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| Back to a sandy track | only for awhile - rocks ahead | |
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| An Orchid - a Parson's band | ||
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| More rock formations | Road junction | |
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| Our path is left | A 4WD track - easy walking | |
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| 4WD track stops, narrow track continues on | Back to the main path which we took to get to the top | |
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| Much easier going downhill | Views towards the car park | |
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| At the Grand Canyon turn-off | ||
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| The bottom end of the Grand Canyon | the Finish line | |
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| Back at the car park - time for lunch! |