Winton Wetlands – Nesting Ground Campground

15 – 16 March 2023

We left the caravan park at Glenrowan and stopped in town to have morning tea and to visit some of the Ned Kelly sites. There is some very good interpretative information about the famous Kelly Gang, and the siege at Glenrowan in 1880. There’s also an excellent bakery for morning tea, just across the railway line in the main street.

We drove on to Winton Wetlands and were set up with a view of Lake Mokoan before lunch time. It was a hot afternoon so we spent most of the time chasing some shade until later in the day when Mick went for a drive to a good spot for birds. Nesting Ground was very productive for wildlife spotting – we saw an echidna, an antechinus, a possum and we also heard a fox close by in the night.

Sunset over Lake Mokoan

The campground is well spread out with some sites overlooking the lake and others looking out towards the hills. Most sites are quite large and easy to access. There are toilets and a picnic shelter at the campground as well. Bookings are online and the system is a little clunky but workable. You book the campground but not the actual site which you choose when you arrive - even though the booking system requires you to enter a site number. 

After our night at the wetlands we made the decision to head for the King Valley. We didn’t know much about the area, but a traveller we had met at Omeo recommended it as a good place to visit so that seemed like as good a reason as any to head that way.