Dry Diggings Track - Stage Five - Tipperary Walk
U3A Ballarat Hike No 71 By Mark Bevelander We commenced our walk from Hepburn Springs to Daylesford Lake by challenging ourselves to a rather steep hill. As we struggled up it a car drove past with the driver waving to us, well really… The weather started off rather grey when we left Hepburn but gradually more and more blue sky appeared until the last third of the walk was in continuous sunshine. The overall walk involved a 100m climb over the 16 or so km with lots of downs and ups following the contours along Springs and Sailors creeks running a fair amount of water after a few weeks of periods of rain. The scenery was quite superb looking down onto the various rock formations and rapids of water through Breakneck Gorge, the Blowhole, Tipperary Spring, Bryce’s Flat, Twin Bridges etc. There were quite a few obstacles along the track with fallen trees to clamber over and, one occasion, traversing a rocky outcrop leaning over the creek which required con