Day 6 Monday 5 October 2026
It was a very peaceful night on the banks of Reedy Creek at O’Donoghues camp but the road beckoned, so we packed up and made our way to Yackandandah.
It’s one of Victoria’s prettiest villages with a centre classified by the national trust and steeped in the legacy of gold. We wandered down the main street lined with buildings of yester year offering unique artworks, crafts, music and antiques in the eclectic mix of galleries, shops and studios. We couldn’t resist buying some old fashioned cordial.
We continued on our way to Tallangatta, a rural town on the southern shoreline of an arm of Lake Hume.
We stopped to have a look at the statue commemorated in 2023 of Sandy the only WWI war horse to return to Australia.
The present day township dates from the 1950s, but the original town was 7 km east and is now shown on maps as Old Tallangatta which was established in the 1850s near the junction of the Mitta Mitta River and Tallangatta Creek, the town played a vital role in the gold rush era, railway expansion, and regional development. But it’s what happened in the 1950s that makes it famous. Tallangatta was physically relocated to higher ground to allow for the expansion of Lake Hume. Homes, businesses, and entire streets were moved or rebuilt, creating what is now known as “the town that moved.”
We went to the lookout but any remains of the original town is underwater.
A bit further on we turned off the road to drive 8km to Mt Granya summit from which we had lovely views of the valley below from the Georges Creek Lookout.
Returning to the main road it was another 8km to Cotton Tree Campground also in the Granya State Park that used to be a site of an old dairy.
We walked along the track leading up the hill to the falls. Along the way we came across the Scout Hut constructed in 1937. Another 400m we reached the base of the falls.
Then returned to Buster for a peaceful night.
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