b'On the western side of the summit, weoverlooked the Buchan HeadwatersWilderness Zone of the AlpineNational Park. Immediately below uswere the deep and steeply slopinglands through which the upperreaches of the Buchan River flow. Wecould also pick out the steep descentwe would ultimately make to theBuchan River via Mundy Plains Trackand the long ascent along DiggersHole Track. The convoys caught up with eachother on a stretch of Diggers HoleRoad for lunch and swapped storiesabout what they had seen and doneHappy hour so far that day. Some wanderedaround the lunch spot looking at theThis allowed us to drive along through encountered small mobs of brumbies. various wildflowers. Others stoodtall forests re-establishing after the around, cuppa and sandwich in hand,bushfires, passing through brilliant Our most interesting outing was when as a tiny snake slithered betweengreen fern glades, all being shrouded two convoys set out in opposite them.in a heavy mist which added more directions on a circuit involving Mt When one convoy pulled up at Nativeatmosphere.Seldom Seen summit, Seldom Seen Dog Flat for afternoon tea, the leaderTrack, Bald Hills Road, Mundys Plain hastened over to the people in theirHowever, we also made time to visit Track, Diggers Hole Track, Diggers lone campsite to assure them thatthe Buchan Pub for a very good lunch Hole Road, Jam Tin Flat Track, their serenity was only beingand many of us availed ourselves of Nunniong Road, Native Cat Track, temporarily disturbed, by confirmingthe chance to top up with fuel at the Limestone Road and Gelantipy Road.we were not coming in to set upBuchan. The proprietor had apparently Mobile phones started ringing as camp. They appeared relieved toordered a fuel re-supply on the soon as we arrived at Mount Seldom hear this. Their only other visitors hadstrength of us being in the area.Seen, with most of us receiving been mobs of brumbies and two wildDuring our outings, we met some messages about the latest Covid-19 dogs. It was a tired and happy gangbush workers going about their daily outbreak in quarantine hotels. While that got back to camp for a final nightjobs. These included a Wild Dog disappointing to hear about it, we around the campfire. There was lotsTrapper with a 32 trap line, working didnt pay too much attention as we of laughter and story-telling. It reallyout of Buchan and a Fox Baiter, who were hundreds of kilometres away, had been wonderful to get out in theoften travels 450km per day from his with our mates, surrounded by bush bush again after so long beinghome at Marlo. The former told us scenes, on a glorious sunny day. cooped up in the suburbs. At bed-dog activity had been quiet in the last Mount Seldom Seen afforded us time, we were treated to the clearestfew weeks but he had trapped 52 wild magnificent views over vast swathes skies of the week, with all the usualdogs during 2020. The Fox Baiter told of countryside. The Cobberas and the constellations visible, just as a partingus how successful the Lyrebirds had Rams Horn were easy to identify in memory of a great camp.been in avoiding the ravages of the one direction, with Mt Nunniong and It is to be hoped that the start of 2021bushfires of the previous 12 months, Mt Nugong in another. Immediately has been as joyful and active for otherand we were to see some of these below us in an easterly arc was the four-wheel drive clubs.magnificent birds ourselves on some sparsely settled farming country Geoff Kenafacketracks. On one day trip, we also around Wulgulmerang and Gelantipy.A break in the mist on Tulloch Ard RoadTRACKWATCH MARCH 2021 9'