4 Responses to “Walk 55 (Strath Creek and Diggers Falls)”

  1. Fred Tropp May 3, 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    We did the Mt DIsappointment walk yesterday. We didnt realise you had to walk over the falls, and headed the wrong way, but soon fixed that. It was hard to establish direction going down to Strath Creek. We “missed” and ended up upstream of Diggers Falls. It was hell scrambling along the cliffs to get back downstream, but fun. Soon it was about to get dark. We walked up to a local house and the wonderful owner, John, drove us back to our car.

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    • Glenn Tempest May 5, 2010 at 10:03 am #

      Hi Fred,
      You are certainly keen. The Strath Creek & Diggers Falls walk is rated as difficult as there are long sections of basic navigation required (mainly along creek beds). Shorter daylight hours at the moment means having to start really early so as not to be beaten by an early nightfall. Getting down to Diggers Gully falls must have been interesting to say the least. It’s a pity that the turnoff at the 4 kilometre mark is not signposted. It would make things a lot easier. I’m surprised you didn’t realise that you had gone too far when you reached Diggers Link 2 Track (unless this was not signposted either………). Anyway, glad to see you got back to your car and didn’t have to spend the night huddled under a bush. Always a bugger that.

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  2. Dan March 3, 2013 at 4:35 pm #

    Hi there, we did this walk yesterday and it is probably an even bigger mission now. Re-growth has made it quite hard to stick to any sort of track, although its not too bad. I thoroughly enjoyed the hike, it was quite challenging for us and we are quite experienced hikers!
    Next time I am going to take some pink ribbon with me and try and mark out a path through the rough bits, in the hope that if people keep to one path it will become a bit easier and less taxing on the environment. Cheers for the book, we are loving these oddball hikes ;)

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    • Glenn Tempest March 4, 2013 at 9:37 am #

      Hi Dan, glad you enjoyed the walk. Sorry to hear about the regrowth and the fact that the trail is now difficult to follow. Although this walk is not an official Parks Victoria walking trail I really believe it should be. Not that this would probably change things much! It’s one of my big disappointments with Parks Victoria (and DSE) that they don’t have the funding to maintain and manage many of the State’s best walking trails, let alone open new ones. The Government appears to be cutting funding to PV on a regular basis and Victoria’s walking trail system is in a general state of major decline.

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