Category Archives: Australian Travel

Our next ‘day out’ as part of our Yarragon Experience was to drive through the Strzelecki Hills, to the south of Yarragon. The ‘Old Leongatha Road’ that we started on (after our customary coffee in Yarragon) took us through pastures across the valley floor, before climbing quite steeply into the Strzelecki ranges. We then turnedContinue reading “Sketches of Yarragon, Three”

The first full day completed, and followed by some very good rest, we awoke to another very misty morning, which showed promise of being another beautiful day. We thought it would be a perfect day to traverse the valley and reach the top of Mount Baw Baw. However, a rather sluggish start and a leisurelyContinue reading “Sketches of Yarragon; Two”

It has been some while since I last posted a blog. To be precise, the last post was a Sketch of Nagambie in December 2019, when we visited that part of Victoria with our camping friends. But I have not been idle! I do have two blogs ready to be posted, but for which IContinue reading “Slingsby during the Covid Lock-down”

Every town needs its hero, something to look up to, to make the town different from other towns. For the 1,860 or so people who live in Nagambie, their hero is the race horse Black Caviar. Born in 2006 at a stud somewhere around the Nagambie district, Black Caviar was undefeated in 25 races, includingContinue reading “Sketches of Nagambie”

Cobram is a fair resting-place, in right of its nearness to the river, and the little paddle boat that comes and goes upon it: which make up a pleasant and refreshing scene, after the dusty roads. But, unless you would like to dwell on an enormous plain, with jagged rows of irregular gumtrees on it,Continue reading “Sketches of Cobram”

Mansfield is a small town in North Eastern Victoria, about 180 km from Melbourne, and 30 or so km from the popular ski resort of Mt Buller. It has a resident population of the order of 4,400, but during the summer holiday period, and during the winter ski season, the population increases markedly. Originally importantContinue reading “Sketches of Mansfield”

Sketches of Lorne, Two June 27, 2017 Our walk to the main centre of Lorne starts as we join a walking track that passes the Lorne Pier. Where the path actually starts, I have no idea, but it is somewhere off to the west, maybe even as far west as Portland. But we join itContinue reading “Sketches of Lorne”

      We had talked about, and had thought about, going to Port Douglas in far north Queensland for a couple of weeks in late June and early July to escape the Melbourne winter weather. But we talked too much, and thought too long, and as the last week of June approached, we realizedContinue reading “Sketches of Lorne”

  December 2-4, 2016 Inverloch, on the south-east coast of Victoria, just to the east of Port Phillip and Westernport bays and about 140K from Melbourne, is a delightfully small coastal holiday resort, with a resident population of about 5,000.This doubles during the summer holiday season and on ‘long weekends’. Over the March Labour DayContinue reading “Sketches Of Inverloch”