Category: Regional Trips

  • 2024-03 Lorne, the Ottways and Port Fairy Folk Festival

    2024-03 Lorne, the Ottways and Port Fairy Folk Festival

    As has become tradition, we again headed for Port Fairy for the annual folk festival. This time we decided to use the Sorrento-Queenscliff ferry to avoid all the Melbourne traffic and break the journey in both directions with 2 sets of 2 days Lorne. On the second day of the 1st Lorne visit we went…

  • 2023-01 Point Nepean and the Great Australian Beer Festival in Geelong

    2023-01 Point Nepean and the Great Australian Beer Festival in Geelong

    In the middle of January it was the Great Australian Beer Festival again in Geelong. We were kindly invited to stay again with Allan and Lorelle and so we headed down to Geelong via the Mornington Peninsula and the Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry to avoid the city traffic. Whilst down that way, we decided to…

  • 2022-07 Yarrawonga

    2022-07 Yarrawonga

    After some miserable damp and rainy wintery weather on the top of Mount Dandenong, we decided to escape to the Sebel in Yarrawonga for a bit of sunshine, good food and a lot of walking. Web gallery Zonerama2022-07 Yarrawonga

  • 2021-08 & 2021-11 A couple of trips to Yarrawonga

    2021-08 & 2021-11 A couple of trips to Yarrawonga

    In August 2021 we decided to head north to try to find some better weather. Thanks to COVID, we were restricted to staying in Victoria and we ended up at Yarrawonga via Winton Wetlands. Our trip was cut short due to lockdown being reintroduced but at least it was a break. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery:…

  • 2021-07 Bendigo, Lake Tyrell and Mildura

    2021-07 Bendigo, Lake Tyrell and Mildura

    In July 2021, we decided to escape the winter weather and the storm damage and set off for Mildura via Bendigo. We also visited Lake Tyrell which is a really amazing place. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 1

  • 2020-12 The Victorian High Country

    2020-12 The Victorian High Country

    In December of 2020, the lockdown was relaxed enough for us to be able to travel up to the Victorian high country for a few days. We travelled to Bright via Benalla and spent 3 nights there. We then went up to Dinner Plain for a couple of nights and from there to Buchan for…