Langi Ghiran

A granite mountain lies beside the western highway just east of Ararat.  This curiously named mountain has all the intriguing elements of human and natural development.  Take a day to climb Langi Ghiran and you will return to your car refreshed.

in the 1880s water was scarce at Ararat and the Langi Ghiran Reservoir was carefully hewn from the local granite Pultenea daphnoides reaches a height of more than 2 metres on the slopes of Langi Ghiran Prostanthera rotundifolia usually has purple flowers but this sample was pale pink
Micromyrtus ciliata was growing profusely on the rocky summit of the mountain from the Langi Ghiran summit you can see the Mt Cole State forest just below the summit we found the lagoon. Was it man-made?
the colorfully named "Milkmaids" are actually Burchardia umbellata. on this Sunday we saw three Echidna .. and no people walking ... the Ant eaters love the park for thousands of years, the Djab wurrung people passed this way, and now you can year the Adelaide traffic

These pictures were taken in October 2000