Tuesday Travels. . Ararat, Victoria

On our recent travels in Victoria, before restrictions were enforced again, one of the towns we visited was Ararat.  We were on our way to the wineries in that part of the world. We had stopped in Ararat for the night and had time to have a wander around the town before dinner.  There are…

Hanging Rock, Victoria. . .Tuesday travels

Hanging Rock is probably most well known from the book or the 1975 movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock The book is considered an Australian classic. Our visit to Hanging Rock was to cheer on our elder daughter as she took part in a 5 kilometre run.  She did a great job and she is now…

Phillip Island, Victoria. . . Tuesday Travels

Since COVID there has been no chance of overseas travel and more often than not there has been no chance of interstate travel so we have been making use of the time to travel in our own backyard, the state of Victoria. On one of the trips we did before our most recent lockdown, which…

Finally some Tuesday Travels

Well, it is more than a year since I last wrote a travel post so this is a welcome change. We have just returned from a road trip in Victoria, our home state. We are still at the stage where we don’t want to venture too far from home but we were keen to get…

Tuesday Travels…Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand

While in Picton we took the cruise of Queen Charlotte Sound.

Tuesday Travels. . .Edwin Fox, Picton

While we were in Picton we visited a historical ship which is dry docked in the harbour. The ship is the Edwin Fox which was a migrant ship and a pioneering freezing hulk. You can read its fascinating history here. There was also a comprehensive museum of the the life of the ship.  The museum…