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The 135-km course incorporates cycling on icy roads , plunging through snow and freezing rivers , skiing on obscure alpine tracks and canoeing through turbulent rapids in icy rivers , winding around Mount Hotham , Omeo and the Dinner Plains , the latter being named by bullock drivers who found the level , well-drained surface an appropriate site for setting up camp . On the western side of this carpark there is a children 's playground and the start of the Stonyford Creek self-guided nature trail - a half-hour loop walk that passes through some remnant bushland and across Stoneyford Creek , incorporating moist eucalypt forest , wattles , banksias , native grasses and gullies of tall tree ferns along the creek banks . Newcastle-on-Tyne ) placed 51 cast stainless steel figures - many of them representing the people who lived at Menzies - across the Lake Ballard saltpan which lies to the north of Menzies . Modern Mandurah lacks an extensive historical base . The Bogong area has the most extensive area of alpine vegetation in the Alpine National Park with more than 300 plant species ( some rare ) . Naturally , there is an extensive range of facilities including ice-skating , snowtubing , tobogganing , snowshoeing , discos , a cinema , two gymnasiums , a large indoor sports complex , pubs , shops , a post office , ATM , EFTPOS , public toilets and telephones , a medical centre , a licensed supermarket , a ski patrol , physiotherapy , massage , a police station , child care , a multi-denominational chapel , an Alpine Museum , photographic services , guided mountain tours ( book at the clock tower ) , an over-snow taxi service , restaurants , cafes , ski and equipment hire , bars , childrens ' activities and a vast range of accommodation from a youth hostel to luxury chalets , including lodges , hotels and modern apartments . The temperate conditions , fecund and varied soil types and high rainfall of the southern slopes have proven ideal for the cultivation of extensive , ornamental and exotic gardens . It leads past the Top Rotunda Picnic Area ( which has hot water , wood and electric barbecues , picnic tables and views across the Dandenongs ) and the Peppermint Picnic Area - a shaded arbour with wood barbecues . However , the major legacy of the era was the establishment , around these mansions , of extensive ornamental gardens . He then did a digital scan of their bodies , reduced the images by 66 per cent , turned them into sand moulds and cast them in stainless steel alloy .