Over the weekend, Joel and I decided against travelling to the coast. Instead, we visited Hanging Rock, where we spent time flying the drone and surveying the surrounding landscape. It was a rewarding experience to scan the contours of the region from above, capturing its striking geological form.

Hanging Rock, located near Woodend in Victoria, is a rare volcanic formation known as a mamelon, created by an eruption approximately six million years ago. Rising abruptly from the otherwise gentle plain, its craggy pinnacles and weathered stone outcrops have long inspired both wonder and myth. For the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung and Taungurung peoples, the site is of deep cultural and spiritual significance, a place of gathering and story. In the colonial period, it became entangled with settler history, serving as a picnic ground and the setting for communal events. Its place in the wider imagination was cemented through Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, which wove its eerie and mysterious atmosphere into one of Australia’s most iconic works of fiction.

From the air, the view revealed not only the volcanic prominence itself but also the quilt of farmland, forest, and settlement that has developed around it over generations. Hovering above with the drone offered a perspective that joined the ancient and the modern: the land shaped by volcanic fire and ancestral presence, now observed through the lens of new technology.

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