Year: 2021
My Christmas Walkabout With Violet
Normally, one doesn’t visit obvious tourist sites in one ’s one city unless you are hosting visitors from interstate or overseas. I had a wonderful day during this week with my granddaughter, Violet (aged 11), when we visited a few of the standout locations in Melbourne that had a Christmas decorations or a seasonal theme. […]
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Christmas Greetings to our Friends and Family
Dear family and friends, Another year has ended and we are looking forward to next year, anticipating that it will be a better year, just as we did at the end of 2020 (ha ha ha!). We have survived another year of Covid-19 after a total of 267 days in lockdown here in Melbourne. […]
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Thanks for Your Help
Thanks to those people who were kind enough to provide me me feedback on whether you could see the images in my recent subscriber emails. I appreciate all your input and it was very helpful. When I first noticed this problem, I immediately thought that there was something wrong wth my blog. Over a series […]
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Image Test Post
Excuse me. I’m trying a few things to see if I can fix a problem where my email subscribers are not seeing photos in the emails that my website sends you If you can see an image of an iceberg in this post, it means that I have found a fix. Otherwise, I’ll keep working […]
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We Are In Victoria’s Central Goldfields Region
After leaving Halls Gap, we travelled north to the city of Stawell and then east across the old central Victorian goldfields to Creswick where are spending the two final nights of this road at the RACV Resort there. We pottered around the city of Stawell for some time yesterday morning. This is where Jill lived […]
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The Grampians and Halls Gap
Yesterday, we transitioned to the Grampian Ranges and the tourist town of Halls Gap. We explored a little family history on the way and visited some interesting places. Near Hamilton, we came across two waterfalls on the Wannon River. The Wannon Falls are a bit of a surprise after driving across some expansive undulating lava […]
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Western Victoria – Prime Grazing Country
Our travels yesterday took us through the very western part of Victoria which are a prime sheep and beef grazing region. We stayed there night in the little town of Coleraine. This is the place where Louis Buvelot, a Swiss immigrant and early Australian Painter competed his work of a water pool near the town. […]
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Around Yambuk
It was cool with rain showers in Port Fairy this morning. After a breakfast at the Oak and Anchor, we spent some time wandering along the main shopping street (Sackville Street). We sheltered under shop verandahs as some showers passed through and bought some ham and cheese rolls to take away for lunch. Our time […]
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Port Fairy
We have three nights in Port Fairy – a town in which time has stood still with beautiful cottages and a streetscape out of last century. Prior to British colonisation in the 19th century, the Port Fairy area, then known as Pyipkil or Ummut, was inhabited by the Pyipkil gunditj clan. The region’s ecology consisted […]
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Along the Shipwreck Coast
(It seems that some of my friends who subscribe to my web site may be receiving an email post that does not include any photos. If this is the case, simply click on the title of the post and the photos will load) The next part of our travels took us through the Otway Ranges […]
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Pottering Around Apollo Bay
We planned to have a quiet day on Tuesday visiting some of the local sights that we know and like around Apollo Bay. Heading back east towards Lorne, we were stopped at a number of roadworks and I managed to see a view Wild Dog Creek. The road along the Creek (Wild Dog Creek Road) […]
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Into The Otways Rainforest
The Otway Ranges formed around 150 million years ago, when the great landmass of Gondwana began to separate from other continents. It has a long history and fossils of dinosaurs have been found in this region. The Wathaurung, Gulidjan, Gadubanud, and Kirrae Whurrong Aboriginal people inhabited this area for thousands of years, before white settlement. Steep […]
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