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Melbourne CBD
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
After leaving Cranbourne Botanic Gardens we headed for Melbourne along the South Eastern Freeway.
Mistake.
Big, huge, terrible mistake.
Melbourne on a Friday evening can be gridlocked at the best of times. Throw in an AFL (Aussie Rules Football) Preliminary Final at the Melbourne Cricket ground and the whole city comes […]

Wildflowers in Cranbourne Botanic Gardens
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
Cranbourne Botanic Gardens are about an hour drive south east of Melbourne (if there is no traffic hold up on the freeway). This was one of the main reasons we travelled along the southern coast of eastern Victoria. We had visited these gardens several times before, but […]

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
On a previous visit some years ago to the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens south east of Melbourne we were delighted to see a Southern Brown Bandicoot near the picnic area. On this visit I was hopeful of seeing one again, this time with my camera at […]

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
On our walk in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens south east of Melbourne we were delighted to get good views of a Swamp Wallaby. It seemed a little shy about coming out into the open which made getting a good photo hard. I also found it […]

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic gardens Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
One of the main places we had planned to visit on our recent holiday in NSW and Victoria was the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens. These gardens are about a hour by freeway south east of Melbourne. When I say an “hour” I realise that this is […]