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My husband and I were exploring Selby which is where our new home will be and we discovered only 5 mins drive away a lake park we didn’t know existed. It’s at the top of Cardinia Reservoir and is called Aura Vale Lake Park.  It’s apparently the run off water from nearby areas which is [...]

I absolutely love Melbourne’s Autumns.  The colour displays as the leaves turn to gold, brown, orange, yellow, etc are beautiful.  And often we have pleasant and slightly warm days with quite cold nights – makes it easy for sleeping but still good during the day.  We’ve even had some rain this year which is nice [...]

If  you want to get away from suburbia and enjoy our lovely countryside, you could head up towards Kallista and visit the many gardens and grounds there.  One of them, Grant’s Picnic Ground, has a large variety of birds that happily visit with the visitors in return for food.  There is a cafe there, walking [...]

I’ve driven past this park many times over years as I’ve gone about my business or visited my family but it never occurred to me to visit it till this past week. I knew it was reclaimed land that had been turned into a wetland reserve and this occurred sometime after 1994 when we’d shifted [...]

I belong to the Southern Suburbs Photographic Society which meets in East Brighton regularly and am currently participating in a beginners course.  Why beginners? Well, even though I’ve been taking photos for over 30 years as an amateur I’ve never learnt the terminology or the intracies of using a camera so I’m now learning what [...]