OCTOBER 1891
Harry Power dies by drowning after a night out drinking.

1. Power's Lookout where Harry hid from the police. He was finally captured here.

2. Stringybark Creek and the Kelly Tree

The Ned Kelly Trail - Powers Lookout

The Ned Kelly Trail Stop 8

The place where Harry Power used to hideout. Spectacular views and breathtaking beauty as well as being a great vantage point on the road below.

Harry Power was captured at Power's Lookout by the police on the 5th June 1870. Harry was convinced that Ned Kelly had betrayed him when in fact it was Jack Lloyd. Lloyd's interest in the reward money increased when it was raised from £250 to £500.

Power's Lookout
The place where Harry Powers used to hideout. Spectacular views and breathtaking beauty as well as being a great vantage point on the road below.

Harry Power was captured at Power's Lookout by the police on the 5th June 1870. Harry was convinced that Ned Kelly had betrayed him when in fact it was Jack Lloyd. Lloyd's interest in the reward money increased when it was raised from £250 to £500.

Harry Power was one of the last of the highwayman-style bushrangers. In 1869, he met the then 14 year old Ned, who became his apprentice and together they conducted their stick ups in the King Valley.

Power used the lookout as a base camp. It provided clear views over the valley, and Ned’s relatives, the Quinns, had a homestead at the base of the crag.

Powers Lookout is a few kilometres off the Whitfield-Mansfield Road, via an easy but narrow dirt track. You can walk out to the crag but note there are some steep sets of steps involved -- where Power observed the goings on down below, and a detailed display has information about his career and the beautiful Victorian high country towards which you look.

Ned escaped Powers’ influence when the bushranger accused him of cowardice during a bungled holdup in 1869.

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