Olsen's Tours and Training Blog

We got away a couple of hours later than planned due to Undarra splitting our group into two. One group did the lava tubes tour at 10:30 and returned at 12:30. Flexibility is the key to safe and stress free travel, so some quick changes to the plan would give us a reasonable target for tonight’s camp.

From Undarra to Mt Garnet is a pretty easy bitumen road but we found ourselves first on the scene at a fatal motor vehicle accident and spent an hour assisting there.

Once underway, we reached Mt Garnet where we began our run along the old railway line to Lappa. This is a very picturesque drive with great views. The last wet season caused some serious erosion which made for an even more interesting journey.

We arrived at Lappa with plenty of time to set up camp and inspect the old Espanol Hotel. Australia’s only BYO pub.

The Yappa from Lappa visited our camp site, recited some bush poetry and generally kept us entertained with his antics. We had a fantastic night around the camp fire under a sky filled with stars.