The Chowey Bridge
About 10 km out of town is the railway bridge at Chowey. It seems incongruous to drive down a lonely dirt road and reach a beautifully proportioned concrete arch bridge over a deep pool in the middle of nowhere.
After leaving Chowey Bridge, we drove about 25 km south of Biggenden, where we take another dirt road with a sign says "lookout" so we take it, off the beaten track, we start driving along a lovely country-scene road and then all of a sudden the road starts to climb up and the road gets narrow and windy, but there is no where to turn around. Don't look down now!
We keep following the track and end up coming to a clearing, were we pull up and there is a sign that says 'lookout' and Coalstoun Lakes, we both look at each other and say we have come this far. (It is a late summer afternoon and rather hot.)
So we lock the car and taking the camera, we start to walk up the steep incline to the first section where there is another sign saying lookout BUT it too is on another steep incline, about 15 minutes later. We are both taken by surprise when we get to the top to find two large crater size hole they are know as "Coalstoun Lake" a non-active volcano.They are surrounded by trees and the centre is also covered in dense tree foliage.
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