{"id":22,"date":"2010-09-26T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:03:26","slug":"plenty-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Plenty Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Length:<\/strong> 3.1 km<\/p>\n

Time taken<\/strong>: 1 hr (with lots of breaks for pics)<\/p>\n

Grade:<\/strong> Easy \/ Moderate<\/p>\n

Climb<\/strong>: 75 metres (as measured by RunKeeper)<\/p>\n

This track is a circuit around the Blue Lake in Plenty Gorge. It was a relatively short walk, but well worth it as the lake and cliffs were absolutely beautiful and the path was quite scenic with plenty of trees and a river flowing below. Unfortunately the book was left behind so I didn’t have the directions for the complete 4.5km walk – of which part is not a real track.<\/p>\n

We took a wrong path near the beginning which lengthened the walk a little, but it wasn’t a bad detour. Although we ended up bush bashing between the wrong paths and I nearly slipped on loose rocks down the hill a few times.<\/p>\n

The real path to the Blue Lake was quite wide and well maintained. From the car park to the lake it was on a slight decline, and from the lake to the car park on an incline. I rated this path as easy \/ moderate due to the incline on the way back, but I may have just felt it more because of the strong sun.<\/p>\n

I can see why the locals hang around this lake for a drink on a nice day.<\/p>\n

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The path to the Blue Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

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Further down the path... <\/p><\/div>\n

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The man made cliffs along the path<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking down on the lake<\/p><\/div>\n

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Danger! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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A great view of the man made cliffs<\/p><\/div>\n

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The cliffs reflecting in the water<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another view<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Length: 3.1 km Time taken: 1 hr (with lots of breaks for pics) Grade: Easy \/ Moderate Climb: 75 metres (as measured by RunKeeper) This track is a circuit around the Blue Lake in Plenty Gorge. It was a relatively short walk, but well worth it as the lake and cliffs were absolutely beautiful and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yarra-river-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}