{"id":1510,"date":"2011-03-23T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osp.com.au\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2012-02-29T02:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:33:19","slug":"lerderderg-gorge-flood-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Lerderderg Gorge Flood Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1515\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2.jpg\" rel=\"themeblvd_lightbox\" title=\"The Lerderderg River after the January 2011 floods.\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1515\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1515\" title=\"1. lerderderg-flood\" src=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2-1024x357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2-1024x357.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2-438x153.jpg 438w, https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1.-lerderderg-flood2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lerderderg River<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karen and I completed a walk last weekend in Lerderderg State Park linking Short Cut Track, Trout Track and Clear Water Creek \/ Ambler Lane. We finished the walk along a short stretch of the Lerderderg River back to O&#8217;Briens Crossing. It was an excellent outing and will almost certainly be included in our forthcoming new walking guide to Melbourne&#8217;s Western Gorges (the Brisbane Ranges, Werribee and Lerderderg State Parks). What really amazed us was the amount of flood damage and debris along the river.<\/p>\n<p>The section of trail I&#8217;m talking about runs along the Lerderderg River from the Tunnel to O&#8217;Briens Crossing. In the past this was definitely one of the most enjoyable short walks in the park as it had wonderful river views combined with rugged cliffs, stands of tall manna gum and plenty of gold history along the water race. Over the last 10 years this trail fell into major disrepair and parts of it were downright dangerous (particularly in wet weather). What I&#8217;m hoping is that Parks Victoria will now re-look at this trail (starting along Byers Back Track) and make it one of the key circuit walks in the park. It will take a bit of work and lots of flood debris will need to be cleared but there is no doubt that this trail could be the showcase walk in the Lerderderg State Park. Interpretation signs could also be installed. Right now the walk is closed and with good reason. You can&#8217;t even see the trail in places as it is buried under piles of timber. I just hope that Parks Victoria allocate the necessary funds and rebuild what could be one of the best trails near to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2.-lerderderg_tunnel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1522\" title=\"2. lerderderg_tunnel\" src=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2.-lerderderg_tunnel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2.-lerderderg_tunnel.jpg 567w, https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2.-lerderderg_tunnel-438x292.jpg 438w, https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2.-lerderderg_tunnel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen and I completed a walk last weekend in Lerderderg State Park linking Short Cut Track, Trout Track and Clear Water Creek \/ Ambler Lane. We finished the walk along a short stretch of the Lerderderg River back to O&#8217;Briens Crossing. It was an excellent outing and will almost certainly be included in our forthcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,8],"tags":[23,114,44],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daywalks-around-melbourne","category-daywalks-around-victoria","category-walking","tag-bushwalking","tag-gorge","tag-lerderderg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenntempest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}