Mount Patrick
Tuesday 13 March 2012 Although a longer drive, it was decided to walk from Jeffreys Track rather than starting at Myrtle Forest. The upside was a shorter walk along the fire trails and of course the route through the bush to the Mount Patrick summit was the same whichever way was chosen. Mind you the Jeffreys Track is most uninspiring and you are on it for some 3.6 k and 60 minutes twice. Since last visit there the potholes that attract 4WD enthusiasts have got wider and deeper. We could not really understand why anyone would want to subject themselves and vehicle to such torture, but I guess they would say the same about bushwalkers. The walk along the East West Trail is not unpleasant at all and it took us some 45 minutes to get to the start of the bush section. We did notice that a couple of plastic lined dams had been put in in recent times, and they are a strange sight, but presumably hold water better that way. More of a disturbance was a large clearing that is