For a town of just a couple of hundred residents, Glenthompson has a great heart beat.
Its foundations are as solid as the Glenthompson bricks that have built much of the town. The deep duplex clay has fed the local brickworks in Glenthompson for well over a century, although no longer operational the works was one of the very few in Australia that produced solid clay bricks and the view into the enormous pit at Glenthompson is quite a sight in itself.
Arguably the best view of the entire southern range of the Grampians can be seen from Menzies Lane, at Robson’s Lookout, south of Glenthompson along the Caramut Road. Don’t forget to bring a camera. Locals have dubbed it “lovers lane,” with a significant proportion of the local population conceived along this not-so-lonely stretch of country road.