She's Gone Walkabout

walkabout – a journey of one's choosing to satisfy the need to be somewhere else

A walk with history

The Murray River is Australia’s longest river at 2508 kilometres and it is the third longest navigable river in the world. It starts its journey in the Australian Alps. The Murray River now forms much of the border between Victoria and New South Wales. The river then...

Free at last – my first journey after Covid lockdown

Because of line work the train to Swan Hill that I had booked had morphed into a bus. It was the last day of track works and as I alighted from the bus at Swan Hill, the train that I had booked pulled slowly into the station, empty. Now all I had to do was to wait for...

Merri Creek Walk North from Ceres

Today we started and finished our 11 k walk with larger than life murals. Just a step off High St near the start of Beavers Rd is this handsome mural on a wall of a building in a bluestone lane. Bluestone laneways still run between now graffitied back fences and...

Ceres

It is just over 2 kilometres from Darebin Rd to Ceres and it makes for a delightful urban walk. There are several roads that can be taken but the most direct route is via High St and Beavers Rd. Today I walked down Beaconsfield Rd where I came across this flock of...

Warburton Rail Trail

Lilydale to Mt Evelyn 6.9 k, Mt Evelyn to Wandin 5.4 k The last train to Warburton ran on Sunday 1st August 1965. The original line with the first train leaving on the 13th November 1901 began at Lilydale and ran for 37 kilometres (23 miles), stopping ten times before...