When you enter Bendigo from Melbourne the last and largest hill at the edge of Bendigo is the hill and cutting over Big Hill. Ever wondered where exactly Big Hill' is? Its actually a couple of kilometres to the North East of the highway see map below. So exploring in my 4x4 looking for a track to its summit I found the tacks sealed off with locked gates because the tracks are used as service roads for the Coliban channel. The Coliban Channel is 102 kilometres long and was constructed during the gold rush to bring water to Bendigo all the way from Malmsbury, some 70km away by road and from an altitude of 1,430 feet above sea level, where Bendigo is almost 300 feet lower. The gravity fed channels and aqueducts are registered under the Victorian Heritage Act. Today mostly concrete channel runs through paddocks, punctuated at regular intervals by tunnels, raised aqueduct and artificial bluestone block waterfalls.
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