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2007 Victorian trip report #3
After leaving the home and garden of our friends we drove the short distance to the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. We didn’t have enough time to visit the special new section in the park, so we went to the old picnic area. We had visited this spot on two previous occasions […]

Our cabin in Traralgon, Victoria
2007 Victorian trip report
We stayed the night in a wonderful cabin at Traralgon. Next morning I did a quick survey of the area immediately around our cabin in the caravan park. There was nothing to really get excited about. I saw several Australian Ravens and Australian Magpies, one Magpie Lark, some […]

2007 Victorian trip report #1
Yesterday I described how we left Canberra and headed south on our way to Melbourne. From the point where the road crossed the Great Dividing Range we began a long steady descent to sea level. We began driving through increasingly dense rainforest which was in complete contrast with the barren area […]

2007 Australian Capital Territory trip report # 15
On our final morning in Canberra, we packed the car and left earlier than we normally do. We had a long day of travelling ahead of us. I had planned for us to travel due south from Canberra, through Cooma, Cann River, Orbost, Bairnsdale, Sale and Traralgon heading […]

Red Wattlebird
2007 Australian Capital Territory trip report # 11

In the afternoon of the day we went to visit the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra we had a short break. We’d been walking for hours and we were a little leg weary. We stopped at a convenient picnic table to have a […]