Our base in the Grampians National Park was the Halls Gap Caravan Park Halls Gap is the gateway to the park Pickaninny Peak is a great climb in spite of the name In January 2006 a large bushfire left the trees black but the forest is recovering It's a short climb through blackened trees and some fresh wildflowers Mt Abrupt is free of clouds but still not clear under the overcast The peak is not so high but there is a distant view This roo at the top seemed oblivious of us and we watched it for a long time, finally wondering if it perhaps was blind. Beautiful on the ground, even more so in flight The emus seemed as curious about us as we were about them Hi joey! Here's a whole mob of roos . . . . . . and there's our van. Yup, they hang out right in the campground Diane is photographing Dave who is photographing the roos On the way to Brambuk we snapped enough pictures to catch roos in flight At Brambuk the National Park & Cultural Centre we learned about Aboriginal Heritage. The centre is run by Aboriginal communities. At the Gariwerd Dreaming Theatre we saw two presentations. One film was a telling of the creation story of Gariwerd, the aboriginal name for the Grampions. The second told of the geology and history of the area. The Bushfoods Cafe is as informative as the displays We had the Bush Food Platter which included kangaroo steak, emu sausages, crocodile on a skewer, and prawn and crocodile ravioli with two different 'bush' chutneys Boroka Lookout For more than 5,000 years indigenous peoples observed sacred ceremonies in the Grampians

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