Southern Circuits

Adventure Rider Issue #51

• Fit out
• Checkout
• It’s Time with Karen Ramsay
• Secret Adventure Business with Andy Strapz
• The Finer Points Of Traction with Miles Davis
• Kimberley Kapers
• MAP KTM 890 Adventure R Rally
• Cup Day, Keppel And Whisky Creek Hut
• Shop Bike 02
• Heffo
• Weekend Escape To Ebor
• Twins
• Walcha Motorcycle Rally
• Destination Tora Bora
• Southern Circuits
• Big Red
• Kawasaki KLR650 Adventure
• Triumph’s New 1200s
• Spinifex Express
• It’s what we do

There’s a plethora of unsealed and sealed roads that duck, twist and weave between the crystal-clear streams, fern-filled depressions, plantations and towering gums of western Victoria’s southern regions. Graeme Sedgwick went in search of some of the best.

Author Graeme Sedgwick

The postage-stamp sized village of Moriac became my start point before heading to Deans Marsh, an even smaller hamlet boasting a magnificent store-come-bakery café. At any other time it would also have been a perfect place to stop, but I had no time to enjoy either if I was to make it through a loosely planned southern circuit following Cape Otway Road.

Barwon Downs beckoned, and after a short plantation detour immediately south of Seven Bridges Road and north of Yaugher, I rolled into Forrest, a very on-trend destination these days, with a brewery, café, pub and hideaway accommodation.It’s in stark contrast to when the town was a narrow-gauge railhead for fresh-cut timber.