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  • Some Birds in South West Victoria

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    This is a continuation of our coastal trip in early December 2025. We ventured from Warrnambool towards Port Fairy for lunch. On the way we stopped off at Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve for a short break. Tower Hill is the remains of an extinct volcano, now a lake filled crater. If you want to know…

  • Sea Breezes in Warrnambool, Victoria.

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    The north east of Victoria is usually a pretty hot and dry place at this time of year. However there was a break of cooler weather around the 9-12th December, so we headed to the coast. We left the dry paddocks behind to find a bit of an oasis of green grass and cooler temperatures…

  • Historic Bathurst, NSW

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    We did something quite unusual on New Year’s Day taking an 8hr road trip to Sydney, NSW to visit our family for a late Christmas catchup . The roads were reasonably quiet which was a great help. We stopped overnight in Cowra in southern NSW to break up the trip. It was a warm summer’s…

  • Zig Zagging in the Blue Mountains, NSW

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    We visited our family in Sydney back in October on one special day we decided to go for a stream train ride. We had been talking about do this trip for some years and finally did it. A great family experience. Touring at the Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow. This BP 218 engine was built…

  • Norfolk Island Trip Rap Up

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    Here is a snapshop of some images from our September 2025 visit. Our bird list was fairly limited. eBird records shows 132 species have been observed. We visited before the main migrating shorebirds, but we still saw lots of interesting new birds. The Island is an important stopover point on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway look…

  • The Joys of Train Travel

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    We have had a wonderful time experiencing slow touring between Wangaratta and Sydney, visiting family. It’s an 8hr journey, with a rather slow section between Cootamundra and Harden as the train meanders through the quiet countryside of southern NSW. We passed through a rural landscape that in parts could be English, with weeping willows along…

  • Discover Winton Wetlands: 6th August 2025

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    This large area of public land at Winton, Victoria is managed by the Victorian Government for conservation purposes. The original Winton Swamp system made up of some 13 small wetland areas totalling about 7000Hectares was taken over by the state government in 1971 and flooded to create Lake Mokoan for a irrigation storage. This resulted…