Feb 2020, Glenaire, Vic Castle Cove Beach is on the Great Ocean Road between Apollo Bay and Lavers Hill. While the beach is wild and beautiful the rolling hills of the farmlands behind also hold an attraction. Continue reading Castle Cove Beach
Feb 2020, Otway Ranges, Vic A few minutes down a short well-made dirt road from the Otway Fly is the picnic and parking area of Triplet Falls. It can’t be all that far because Outback Jack (Woody) didn’t start complaining … Continue reading Triplet Falls
Feb 2020, Otway Ranges, Vic A short drive from Lavers Hill on the Great Ocean Road, you’ll find the Otway Fly set in the rainforests of the Otway Ranges. We old buggers give the flying fox experience a miss but gallop off to the walkways suspended above the forest. We probably walk several kilometres in all and climb the tower just to say that we still can. The tower appears to be swaying slightly in the breeze or is that the gums trees moving. Hang on we’re just giddy from the climb. Luckily, we have a botanist in our group … Continue reading Sex in the Sea and the Otway Ranges
Feb 2020, Apollo Bay, Vic A short drive along the Barham River flats behind Apollo Bay brings us to Paradise and a walk through the tree ferns to the river. It’s cool, damp and mossy with ferns growing on more … Continue reading I’ve been to Paradise…
Goulburn, NSW English tradition decreed that only cities were to have cathedrals. When the good folk of the rapidly growing and prosperous town of Goulburn built St Saviour’s Cathedral, Queen Victoria was forced to declare Goulburn a city! Continue reading I dub thee
Aug 2019, Mt Morgan, Qld This quirky ex hotel building from 1899 has served more than a cold beer in its day. During World War 2 the tower was used as a plane observation post. Continue reading The Queensland National Hotel
Apr 2013, Apollo Bay Continue reading Apollo Bay Fishermen’s Co-Op
Encounter Bay, SA was named for the surprise meeting in 1802 of the explorers Matthew Flinders in the Investigator and Nicholas Baudin and his crew of Le Geographe. English navigator 28 year old Matthew Flinders was charged with the task … Continue reading There’s nothing modern about breakfast meetings
Sep 2017, Nagambie, Vic Continue reading Chinaman’s Bridge
Dec 2019, Beechworth, Vic Beechworth is such an interesting town that I’m quite sure that a lot of tourists aren’t aware of the gorge. By the time you’ve immersed yourself in gold rush history, walked the shops, had your fill of stylish clothes and homewares and refreshed yourself at an historic pub or two then any mention of gorge would have you dashing off for a long lunch somewhere nice. But no, there is a gorge and surprisingly it’s just behind town. “In Beechworth, we take the drive along the Gorge Road, a narrow twisting one-way road that clings to … Continue reading Beechworth Gorge
