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Oceania » Australia » Victoria November 4th 2021

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Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Essendon September 4th 2021

Today we finally make the long trip home... well that’s assuming our beloved Qantas doesn’t cancel on us at the last minute …again. We decide it would probably be a good idea to make the most of our last few hours of freedom given what awaits us in Melbourne - locked down except to get food, or to exercise for no more than two hours a day, all within five kilometres of home, and a curfew. I’m not too sure what time the curfew kicks in. Our flight gets in quite late - I hope they don’t make us sleep at the airport. We head down to Elizabeth Quay which is on the banks of the Swan River next to the CBD. It was only opened in 2016 and looks to be an entertainment type precinct ... read more
Bell Tower, Elizabeth Quay, Perth
Love tokens at the base of Bell Tower, Elizabeth Quay, Perth
Bell Tower, Elizabeth Quay, Perth

Oceania » Australia » Victoria August 24th 2021

My brother suggested the title of this, the last entry of our “Dash to the Bash” blog, and it is entirely accurate so I am using it! As we approached the end of our holiday we kept hearing reports of an alarming increase in Covid cases in NSW and that gave us a terrible fear that, potentially, borders to Victoria could close. We needed to go home and we needed to do it soon. As a friend said to us “the stable door is beckoning”. We felt we had two options: travel from Qld through the Northern Territory down to South Australia and across to Victoria which would have added 5,000km odd to our distance travelled, and then with no guarantee that we could actually enter S.A. or Vic. Or; to travel through NSW within a ... read more
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8210821.3 heading west
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Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne August 20th 2021

Royal Botanical Gardens Victoria Melbournehttp://www.heygo.com We were close to the Melbourne Remembrance Shrine and Observatory so where was Alex taking us. Well he took us to the beautiful botanical gardens as part of his Surprise Down Under programme. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens has been a treasured part of Melbourne’s cultural life for more than 170 years, it was founded in 1846. These beautiful Gardens are home to amazing and diverse plant collections and we were able to discover just part of the 38 hectares. There is no entry fee & it usually would be buzzing with people but with the current lockdown regulations in Melbourne we almost had the place to ourselves. We wandered through the different areas admiring all the wonderful trees and plants including the Cactus Garden, Fern Gulley & the Bamboo ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne May 23rd 2021

Looking for kangaroos with http://www.heygo.com https://www.heygo.com/tours/kangaroo-spotting Westerfolds Park is a metropolitan park situated in an eastern suburb of Melbourne. It was 7am on Sunday morning in U.K. (4pm in Melbourne). Alex our heygo guide had brought his girlfriend along today, it was nice to meet her, they make a lovely couple and a great team as we hunted the kangaroos in this beautiful area. Westerfolds is classified as a metropolitan park and conserves habitat within the Melbourne urban environment. The park nestles into a hilly bend in the Yarra River. In 1846 the land was purchased from the Crown. In the early 1930s, the Turner family bought the property. After World War II many of the dairy farms and orchards in the surrounding area were subdivided for... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Essendon May 20th 2021

Today we head home. First stop this morning is the Murtoa Stick Shed. We read that until the outbreak of World War 2 Australia typically exported around sixty percent of its wheat to Great Britain and Western Europe. The War thus caused a glut, and the Stick Shed was thrown up in only four months in late 1941 and early 1942 to store some of the excess. We watch a short video presentation before entering the structure. It’s jaw-droppingly massive - 265 metres long, 60 metres wide, and nearly twenty metres high at its highest point. The roof is supported entirely by 560 slender mountain ash poles, which are thought to have been salvaged from Victoria's infamous 1939 bushfires. According to the ever reliable Wikipedia it’s often claimed to be the largest “rustically built” structure on ... read more
Murtoa Stick Shed
Rupanyup silos
Murtoa Stick Shed

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Horsham May 19th 2021

Issy had a restless night. As predicted, she bumped her head on the wooden case around the fluorescent tube above our bed every time she sat up. I think she might have sat up quite a few times; I hope she doesn’t have concussion. I wonder if she’ll remember who I am. Given that I snuck outside to knock on our window last night after telling her that the hotel was haunted, it might be better if she doesn’t. I’m very careful to follow the detailed instructions on how to use the shower to avoid setting off the hotel’s fire sprinklers. I hope that the water I can eventually feel on my head is indeed just coming from the shower head, and that the whole building isn’t instead currently getting a drenching because I missed a ... read more
Paringa silo artwork
Giant (?) bath, Renmark Hotel
Renmark Hotel Museum




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