BAiL UP!
STARTING your day with a lung-full of fresh mountain air scented with peppermint gum, while admiring a vista out over treetops and valleys to the rocky peak of Mt Buller, takes some topping. It’s the sort of view you could lose yourself in for hours, but my photographer mate Bill has other ideas and is already nudging me to get out of my swag and rattle some pots and pans.
We’d driven the two-and-a-half hours from Melbourne the afternoon before and spent the night yarning around a crackling log fire in his rustic bush cabin, set in a secluded location just a short hop from the village of Merrijig. Best known as a jump-off point to the Mount Buller ski slopes, Merrijig hosts a popular annual rodeo each March and is home to the Hunt Club Hotel, a landmark watering hole renowned for its generous steaks, friendly atmosphere,
