Category: Local Trips

Our friends, Julie and Julian invited us to travel to the Bellarine peninsula for a night in Portarlington. We travelled across on the Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry which makes the trip so much more enjoyable than driving all the way. None of us had been to Portarlington before and we all really liked it. The…

Just before Christmas we were lucky enough to be invited on a full day trip on Puffing Billy from Belgrave to Gembrook by our good friend Julian Ripper who is one of the volunteer conductors on Puffing Billy. So we set off with Julie and Juian and had a splendid day out. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML…

Early in 2024 we had a day out at the Blue Lotus watergardens and Warburton with our new friends, Julie and Julian. Here are some photos of the day. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 1

We planned to head up to Marysville for Hazel’s birthday and to do some hiking but the weather forecast was terrible and so we cancelled. The forecast was accurate, and we were glad not to have gone. The following week, the forecast was great and so we rebooked and headed up. The weather was fantastic,…

Yet again, we headed off to Yarrawonga, a place that keeps drawing us back because it has plenty of bird life and is so very different from Kalorama. On the way, we dropped in at Warby Ovens National Park and climbed Chick Hill. It is quite a challenging climb being very rocky and steep. One…

On a misty day in May 2022, Hazel, Kate and I headed off to Healesville Sanctuary for a day out. We left the mountain in bright sunshine, only to find that flatland, including Healesville Sanctuary, was blanketed in fog. It took a couple of hours but eventually the fog cleared and the sun came out.…

Kurth Kiln regional park is about 35km from where we live and until recently had been an unexplored gem. Apart from being a nice area of bushland with the usual birds and animals, it also has a fascinating history. There is no point in me reproducing that history here, you can find it at Kurth…