Day 231 Omeo to Birregun Road

 VIC Day 7 (Day 231) Tuesday 11th January, 2022 15.8km

4793.5 / 419.9km

Got out of bed keen to go. Not a big day and maybe a breakfast on the way out. Then I look out the window, it's pouring rain.

The Day Looks wet

The pub puts on a continental breakfast so I go down and have a coffee, cereal and toast and just look out the window. I was thinking of calling the day off but looking at the radar there was a break due around 11am.

My view from breakfast

I decided to walk downtown and get a coffee and see what happens. After an hour I need to either buy more stuff or just suck it up and move. In the end I leave Omeo in drizzling rain. At least it's not heavy and likely to cause massive creek rises like a week ago. You could see the Livingstone Creek level at about a metre and a bit higher and machines were down repairing the damage in the riverside park.

Livingstone Creek. You can see the flood level.

I was at least heading for the hills again. When I get to turn off the bitumen road into Upper Livingstone Road there's a road closed sign.

A few quick messages via Belinda and the council just says there's been some washaways but walking through is OK.

I was given the OK

One floodway to negotiate then a simple walk to the camp site. However on this corner there's another road closed sign saying the road I've been asked to detour down further up to bypass trying to cross a flooded Dargo River is also closed due to a landslide.

No Access to Dargo??

I took a photo of the detour

More messaging and it appears walkers, horses and motorbikes can still get through. So a wet set up and another short day planned as I climb the range.

An old wreck