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Dargo 4wd tours

Locality: Dargo, Victoria

Phone: +61 499 840 841

Address: Dargo Dargo, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.dargo4wdtours.com.au/

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24.01.2022 4th Annual Dargo Venison Workshop is on here at the Hotel on 24th of August. Sure to be another great day. Our Accommodation is selling fast. Be sure to Register with our Dargo Landcare Group as per info on Poster below.

23.01.2022 Photos from a trip to Wonnangatta in 1985

23.01.2022 Sometimes I think I should go visit the OUTBACK again. But then i wake up from the Nightmate and just go back to the Vic High Country.. Why would you want to g...o anywhere else. Lots to explore and lots of things like this chimney to find. Don’t ask me where it is. Just go look for it. Spend every weekend exploring. And then get mad when you realize you can just go to sheepyard flat right now and walk to Frys flat and you will see it.

18.01.2022 IT HAPPENED HERE: LIVING AND WORKING IN ISOLATION AT THE DARGO POLICE STATION December 2020, will mark 100 years since one of Victoria's most remote Police St...ations, the Dargo Police station closed. Established in 1861, the one man station serviced the Goldrush community. "There was a lot of swearing in the streets and being drunk in the streets, a lot of people hitting each other", says Gippsland Historian Linda Barraclough. The most famous Dargo crime occurred in 1917, with double murder of Jim Barclay, manager and John Bamford cook and general hand of the Wonnangatta station. The Wonnangatta murder case has never been solved. Disputes, debt notices and theft of livestock and horses were common problems. The police also fulfilled a community outreach role, dealing with people who were mentally challenged or struggling to survive in the remote bushland environment. "When they weren't doing that, they were out looking for people that were lost in the snow", says Linda of these lone policemen. Other duties included reading the eulogies at gravesides because there were no ministers, and taking on the role of clerk of courts. "You couldn't really phone a friend. They didn't have any form of communications", says Linda of the Dargo posting that eventually came to be only staffed by unmarried men. It was certainly a challenging and often dangerous job! With similar isolated one member Police Station setups having been positioned around Gippsland in places such as Bendoc, Heyfield and Briagolong, Linda is keen to hear from anyone who has good photos or stories of these lone policemen. (Please contact the Gippsland History Facebook Page)

17.01.2022 Normal business as we know it will cease at midday today. From that time on and Going forward we will ONLY be offering a Takeaway Service to our Local Communit...y and Accommodation Residents ONLY. This Service will be for Meals and Drinks and commence from 5:30pm till 8pm Daily. We will be Locking our Camp Ground until further notice. Local Working Contractors Accepted Only. We strongly discourage camping in our area. Dargo does have an aging population that we need to support and protect. Our thoughts are the sooner everyone adheres to the Governments Regulations and Self Isolates and Respects Social Distancing, the Sooner we will all be able to Resume a "Normal Life" If you have an accommodation booking with us and need to cancel, we do apologise, but at this critical point as we see it, we are not able to offer you a refund. However, you will have 12 months after we are able to resume "Normal Business" to rebook and utilise your deposit paid. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience; and hope that everyone understands the situation we are in. See more

17.01.2022 Check out the new stubby holders

17.01.2022 A little sneak peek at a few improvements we have been making at the yards with all our "free" time... With stage 3 restrictions on us again, we can't get you a...ll back in the saddle just yet but fingers crossed if everyone does the right thing it won't be long!! (especially so we can pay for it all and the office chick can breath a little easier ) See more

15.01.2022 https://www.mitta.com.au/Omeo%20Highway%20Tales.pdf

08.01.2022 BEGINNERS LUCK: HAVE YOU EVER STUMBLED ACROSS BURIED TREASURE? When Kerry and Peter Leemon moved to Dargo two years ago to take over the Dargo General Store, K...erry was looking for an outdoor hobby that would make her explore the local area, learn about local history and get out in the sunshine. Peter bought her a cheap a metal detector for a birthday present and one afternoon in March 2019, the couple decided to go for a drive up to Collins Flat. We decided to go on a bit of a bush walk this day. We had no idea what we were doing, but decided to walk along the high terrain and then the detector started beeping, says Kerry. After digging around to investigate, the couple came across a small pill bottle caked in mud and dirt. Curious as to why the bottle was beeping, Kerry dusted bottle, which soon revealed a lucky surprise! I started scratching the bottle and all these gold flecks were falling out of it, says Kerry. As it turned out the bottle contained around $15,000 dollars worth of gold (in today's value), that belonged to a miner by the name of John Collins, who had passed away in 1878. It was common for miners to hide their stash underground during the Gold Rush. Dargo was a popular stopover for miners heading to the Goldfields of Grant. On a return trip to Collins Flat, Kerry would later discover a small tin containing coins and a few pound notes that belonged to Mr Collins. She hasn’t encountered any further gold finds since her beginners luck, but has since become hooked on the her new found hobby; the history, the wilderness, the exercise and the eternal promise of finding more buried treasure!

07.01.2022 Here's a flashback to the bush more than 120 years ago! This swagman made a sturdy campsite out of a hollow gum tree in Victoria. His photo was taken circa 1898 by John Duncan Pierce, who called it 'Civilization in the bush'. : State Library Victoria

06.01.2022 This weekends little adventure. Great company, great places. This is our back yard

04.01.2022 The Iconic Droving of cattle home after their stint on the Dargo High Plains for the summer. Back down to the flat country for the winter. Sadly there is only a... couple of local Treasure Family descendants who still drive their cattle on horse back to (in the Spring) and from (in the Autumn) Dargo to the High Plains and back again. For economical reasons most of the cattle these days are exported by truck. See more

02.01.2022 A difficult little track we found on our latest trip

01.01.2022 IT HAPPENED HERE: OBJECTS REVEAL A LIFE OF ISOLATION AND HARDSHIP FOR EARLY SETTLERS AT THE DARGO MUSEUM Nestled in the a remote and rugged enclave of the high ...country, Dargo was originally explored by white settlers when Lachlan Macalister sent his head stockman Angus Macmillan into Victoria to find a grazing area to run cattle and sheep beyond the Monaro. When gold was found in the head waters of the Dargo and Crooked Rivers, the town provided a stopover for Victorian Gold Rush miners on their way to the goldfields of Grant, Talbotville, and Crooked River. "The township of Dargo supplied a lot of food, beef, lamb and vegetables , selling them on to the Gold mining towns and miners", says amateur historian Brian Madigan, who helped established the Dargo Museum in 2000, from salvaged objects and memorabilia found in the goldmining areas. "Very few of the miners that came here would have had horses, most of them would have walked here", says Brian. It was a tough life for the miners, who lived in makeshift bark huts without electricity, heating or communication. Money was short, many miners were transient, on the run from debt. The theft of livestock and horses, disputes, poverty and drunken punch ups at the pub warranted the first police station to be established in 1861. "You'd have to be pretty resilient to survive. Most of the gold mining was alluvial. It was panned out of rivers and creeks, so in the winter time, when you've got a good layer of snow in the high country, your hands and fingers would have been just about dropping off trying to work in the rivers. I'd imagine Pleurisy and Pneumonia would have been common complaints." With medical assistance days away by horse in Sale, and Bairnsdale the nearest major town, food and supplies were expensive. Goods had to be carted in from Port Albert, via a bullock team on a five day trek through a windy bush track. "Apparently the bullock drivers that would bring the whiskey into the town, into the hotels, would put a very fine drill into the bottom of the barrel and, drain a bit of whiskey out. After a period of time if you opened up one of the old barrels, it looked like porcupine inside. They jammed bits of wood in the holes that they'd drilled into it", says Brian. But the exploitative shenanigans didn't stop there with this town on the take. "In the Goldfields, the hotel owners would employ barmen with long fingernails", says Brian. "They would take a pinch of gold for a glass of whiskey, and at the end of the evening they'd wash their fingernails out in a basin, and pan off the gold from under their fingernails!"

01.01.2022 EASTER 2020 As a result of the Coronavirus restrictions the Friends of Wonnangatta Valley, working with Parks Victoria and the Dept of Health and Human Service...s are unable to hold the historical talks, walks and happy hour in the the Wonnangatta Valley at Easter this April. The FOWV will still be in the valley this Easter so we hope to see you there. Sorry if anyone is inconvenienced. See more

01.01.2022 Journey to a different part of our backyard