You are walking in the footsteps of the traditional owners of this land, the Taungurong people, also known as the Daung Wurrung, were nine clans who spoke the Daungwurrung language and were part of the Kulin alliance of indigenous Australians. They lived to the north of and were closely associated with the Woiwurrung speaking Wurundjeri people. Their territory was to the north of the Great Dividing Range in the watersheds of the Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe Rivers. They were also known by white settlers as the Devil's River Tribe or Goulburn River Tribe.
The Taungurong people used the King and Howqua River valleys as a major route for trade or war between tribes. The Howqua River valley contains a number of archaeological sites of significance including at least two quarry sites for greenstone, an exceptionally hard rock used for stone axes, spears and other cutting tools which the Taungurong traded with other tribes.
Or, are you following in the footsteps of Prince Charles who, as a teenager in 1966 went to school at Geelong Grammar's Timbertop Campus at the bottom of the hill; did he venture up this far I wonder, maybe chasing the local girls? Who knows?
[excerpts from Wikipedia used with thanks]
