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Healesville Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Healesville, Australia
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Back to work?
This is a top pick! After the bit of relaxing I had done in Melbourne, it was off to Healesville, a quaint little town an hour away from the big city. I was signed up to do volunteer work for a week on an organic farm through a company called WWOOF (Willing Workers On ...
Species
This is a top pick! ... like a thousand lasers. We followed its elegant weaving right through the Yarra Ranges National Park and over to Healesville, to 'The Sanctuary' - where it all happened.. The Sanctuary It's a pleasant enough setup and specialises in native ...
Healesville Sanctuary
... may add some more later. In the meantime enjoy the pictures. all pictures: ...
Yarra Valley Vineyards!
... 's, pate's, mustard's, olive oil's, chutneys the list is endless. After the vineyards we headed to the small town of Healesville to check out some restaurants for dinner and booked a table at the Wattleseed which specialised in Aussie cuisine, from here ...
Wild Encounters
Healesville Sanctuary is one of Australia’s most sacred wildlife sanctuaries. There were over a hundred animals who were orphaned or injured and now in rehabilitation. It was amazing to see kangaroos, koalas, dingos, emus, wombats (sleeping), ...
Thirsty Thirtieth
... we bought another couple of bottles there for later too ;-) We'd booked to stay the night at Birdwood Cottage in Healesville, a beautiful self-contained 1920s cottage run by a lovely Scottish lady called Irene. As it had a fully equipped kitchen and ...
Time to meet Skippy and the rest...
Visited Healesville animal sanctuary with Chris and Deb (to take in some native Aussie wildlife) before seeing the Victorian girls Under 19s smash Felstead boys school, and a last big night out in Melbourne. Before the sanctuary got to see the local ...
Healesville Take 2
2nd try: Healesville Koala Sanctuary and Yarra Valley Wineries. We made it this time! blog will be updated soon x Wel, laten we het nog eens proberen dan. Vorige keer waren we te laat om nog binnen te gaan, deze keer hebben we het wel gehaald. Het was ...
Healesville and Ramsay Street!!!
... up but we're waiting for a special occasion to open it (it's more precious than champaign). Another winning attraction of Healesville for Karen was visiting the Cheesefreaks cafe. Yes, our Karen got to fullfil her life long ambition of sitting in an ...
On our way to Healesville
So we decided to go to the Healesville Sanctuary. We spent the morning looking for apartments but with all those open house days you just can't get an answer right away. After some places we (or especially I) got a bit sick of it so we left for ...
wombats, wallabies, winos and other wildlife
After bidding goodbye to Birdwood Cottage we visited the nearby Healesville Sanctuary, a beautiful nature park that is home to lots of native Australian animals. We saw loads of creatures including: - Wombats: including teenage male named Stuart ...
Sanctuary at Last
Final full day in Aus so we thought we would do the tourist bit and visit a wildlife sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary is well worth a visit. Loads to see and very well presented. Had a great day out. Off to Singapore tomorrow on the first leg of the ...
Healesville
10.05.09: Great day in our winery hopping tour of Healesville. The Yarra region is one of the famous wine areas in Australia, and also the enemy of the Hunter Valley, that we visited near Sydney! We visited a few spots. We started with Bertolo, which was ...
A Pinot-phile's Tour of Yarra Valley
... has a report on these, please share! During my stay in Yarra Valley, I took the time to visit the Healesville Sanctuary where quite a large collection of native wildlife are cared for and rehabilitated while educating on conservation. I also ...
Platypus is cute too
Am Morgen lassen wir es eher gemütlich angehen. Kurz nach Mittag fahren wir dann zum Healesville Sanctuary, einem Wildpark in der Nähe. Hauptargument für den Besuch sind die Schnabeltiere / Platypus, welche es im Park gibt. Natürlich schauen wir uns ...
Stuzi Hits Healesville Sanctuary!
You may have seen in one of my previous entries a mention of the Healesville Sanctuary, around an hour's drive outside Melbourne in the rural Yarra Valley region. It's a lovely little place which takes in and looks after native species of Australia ...
A little wine
... all trip, that I will take her to a wildlife sanctuary to see Australia's native animals and today is the day. I had read that Healesville animal sanctuary is one of the best places to go and as Harry has not seen a single Kangaroo since he has been in ...
Koalas, Kangaroos and the Yarra Valley
... Melbourne. The tom tom guided us towards more Welsh looking country side and eventually to the small town of Healesville and its wildlife Sanctuary. We booked ourselves onto the 4pm "Magic Moment" with a Kangaroo, which sounds a bit rude ...
Beautiful friends and a wonderful day
... all manner of things. Sandy and Joe also have the vegetable garden and chooks. Totally an idyllic lifestyle. Overnight we decided on Healesville this was to rekindle Sharon's childhood. She wanted to go to Badgers Weir in the morning. Besides it was on ...
The devil made me do it
My friend Louise and I took the train to Lilydale and then a bus to Healesville. Louise is a "hostile" friend...I say that cause people from NZ say "hostile" not hostel. She is 30, surviving a break up of a long engagement, and is now in ...
Yarra Valley and Healesville sanctuary
We started our day at a diary farm where we tasted Australian cow and goat cheeses. We moved on to wine tasting at Punt road and then Rochford. Where Tarah thought it would be a great idea to kick the petanque boule with her foot and then hopped her way ...
Healesville Sanctuary
... big ears and eyes that sort of looked like a left-over, or animal kindom's Mr Potatohead. Odd, but cute. Das Healesville Sanctualry (Schutzzone) zeigt nur einheimische Tiere. Und obwohl wir schon so einige im Melbourner Zoo gesehen hatten haben wir uns ...
Wine, cheese and chocolate tasting - perfect!
... for an extra taste of cheese I get pulled up on it! The result of a big please was a lovely big chunk of cheese, lucky me! Healesville Hotel food was tasty, we really enjoyed it. The waitress was a local and had the hots for Matt ;-) He took it all in his ...
Healesville arrival
... were visiting for dinner, so in preparation Matt & Mat did the food shop, while everyone else had a mooch around Healesville and gathered information from the helpful lady in the Information Centre. The four boys all contributed to the feast of home ...
Næbdyr, pingviner, chokolade
Det var koldt – kun ca. 12 grader, og med lette byger ind imellem. Så regnjakkerne er fundet frem. Daniel var vidst lige så spændt, som sin mor, på at se næbdyret. Han kender næbdyret fra tegnefilmen Phineas & Ferb, hvor der optræder et ...
Puffin Billy and Healesville
... de vallei naar Healesville. Eerste stuk van de dag: daddy time Na puffin Billy en papa's volle camera trekken we door naar Healesville Koala Sanctuary. Op de weg en tijdens de reis ga je genoeg skippy's zien, maar koala's zijn iets moeilijker te ...
In search of the Platypus
Our excursions today took us to in a north-easterly direction from Melbourne to the Yarra Valley and ultimately the Healesville Sanctuary. It was a quick drive and we arrived at the Sanctuary with only a handful of cars in the parking lot, another ...
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