Post by greysrigging on Oct 2, 2021 3:43:26 GMT -5
Your quintessentially bland north east Victorian lowish elevation town/valley nestled inbetween the mountains of the Victorian Alps, with the nearby skifields of Mt Hotham, Mt Bogong and Mt Buffalo
It was also the nearest name I could come up with to shaheenhassan's thread re Wudaoliang ( and apparently false data....gee imagine that, a wiki box with false data, who'da thunk it ? )
Wandiligong was a former gold mining town in the 19th century, and a population about 2000 during the heyday of the Buckland Valley Goldrushes. About 400 or so people nowadays and the whole village is heritage listed with the National Trust. The nearby towns of Porpunkah and Bright are your archtypical tourist trap towns, attracting latte ski wankers in winter and summer blue collar family bogans in summer.
It is pretty country, I'll grant that, and Bright in particular cashes in during Autumn ( Fall, although that term is not used in AU ) with spectacular displays of turn of season colours on the exotic Northern Hemisphere trees ( lots and lots of Poplars ) extensively planted throughout the north east.
www.visitvictoria.com/Regions/High-Country/Destinations/Bright
Wandiligong is also the home of the largest privately owned apple orchard in Australia ( Nightingale Bros ). I went to Boarding School in Albury with the Nightingale siblings, Bruce was in the same year as me and the sister Anne was a real cutie.
www.nightingalebros.com.au/
Climate data is hard to come by for this tiny village, so I'll put up some data from nearby towns to help with the choices
So wnen you type in 'Bright' ( 5 klm from Wandiligong ) or the town at the foot of Mt Buffalo, Porpunkah, Mount Beauty at the foot of Mt Bogong, or Harrietville at the foot of Mt Hotham, on climate search engines, you end up with Dartmouth Dam.
Probably similar to Wandiligong, Dartmouth Dam, but my OCD compells me to look further....
And we have Edi Upper, also in North East Victoria, and likely similar to Wandiligong
Mount Beauty is only 25klm away over the Tawonga Gap
And of course the Post office at Myrtleford. at lower altitude further west along the Ovens River Valley.
The Ovens Research Station at Myrtleford has rainfall records back to 1962, no doubt has temps as well, just not digitised on the BOM Climate Data Site. There seems to be a huge hole re available current climate data in North East Victoria.
Rainfall
And Weatherzone a bit lazy re Bright. If you look hard enough you can find this...
BOM
Seems legit until you see the POV
Even the BOM data is a bit longer in reality
Anyways, Wandiligong is a nice spot nestled at the foot of the Victorian Alps...a 30 minute drive in 3 directions and you're up above the snowline in winter.
Rate the climate from the above info....
It was also the nearest name I could come up with to shaheenhassan's thread re Wudaoliang ( and apparently false data....gee imagine that, a wiki box with false data, who'da thunk it ? )
Wandiligong was a former gold mining town in the 19th century, and a population about 2000 during the heyday of the Buckland Valley Goldrushes. About 400 or so people nowadays and the whole village is heritage listed with the National Trust. The nearby towns of Porpunkah and Bright are your archtypical tourist trap towns, attracting latte ski wankers in winter and summer blue collar family bogans in summer.
It is pretty country, I'll grant that, and Bright in particular cashes in during Autumn ( Fall, although that term is not used in AU ) with spectacular displays of turn of season colours on the exotic Northern Hemisphere trees ( lots and lots of Poplars ) extensively planted throughout the north east.
www.visitvictoria.com/Regions/High-Country/Destinations/Bright
Wandiligong is also the home of the largest privately owned apple orchard in Australia ( Nightingale Bros ). I went to Boarding School in Albury with the Nightingale siblings, Bruce was in the same year as me and the sister Anne was a real cutie.
www.nightingalebros.com.au/
Climate data is hard to come by for this tiny village, so I'll put up some data from nearby towns to help with the choices
So wnen you type in 'Bright' ( 5 klm from Wandiligong ) or the town at the foot of Mt Buffalo, Porpunkah, Mount Beauty at the foot of Mt Bogong, or Harrietville at the foot of Mt Hotham, on climate search engines, you end up with Dartmouth Dam.
Probably similar to Wandiligong, Dartmouth Dam, but my OCD compells me to look further....
And we have Edi Upper, also in North East Victoria, and likely similar to Wandiligong
Mount Beauty is only 25klm away over the Tawonga Gap
And of course the Post office at Myrtleford. at lower altitude further west along the Ovens River Valley.
The Ovens Research Station at Myrtleford has rainfall records back to 1962, no doubt has temps as well, just not digitised on the BOM Climate Data Site. There seems to be a huge hole re available current climate data in North East Victoria.
Rainfall
And Weatherzone a bit lazy re Bright. If you look hard enough you can find this...
BOM
Seems legit until you see the POV
Even the BOM data is a bit longer in reality
Anyways, Wandiligong is a nice spot nestled at the foot of the Victorian Alps...a 30 minute drive in 3 directions and you're up above the snowline in winter.
Rate the climate from the above info....
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