Best Places to visit in Sydney- Port Stephens /Gan Gan Lookout/ Weekend getaway Day 1-Part 1
This is Day 1-Part 1 of our weekend trip
First stop, we went to Gan Gan Lookout which is located at Lily Hill Rd, Nelson Bay NSW
It is 2 to 2.5 hours drive from Sydney via M1
See link below for more details about this Lookout
Goulburn NSW: Australia's oldest inland city
When you travel to Goulburn NSW you’ll realise immediately this unique inland city has a colourful history. The wealth and influence it once had is reflected in the scale and splendour of its streetscapes and it’s architecture. DETAILS:
Southern Highlands Tourist Drive 15
BOWRAL - MOSS VALE VIA ROBERTSON & FITZROY FALLS - 63KM
ALONG THE WAY
BOWRAL : Wingecarribee Reservoir, Villages of Kangaloon & Glenquarry, Wildes Meadow & Burrawang.
ROBERTSON: Robertson Nature Reserve & the Big Potato, Fitzroy Falls, Belmore Falls and Hindmarsh Lookout.
Bushwalks and great photo opportunities.
MOSS VALE: Leighton Gardens & Cecil Hoskins Nature Reserve, Historic Walk.
Autumn Vintage Road Trip in Bowral NSW
If you want to experience the elegance of Europe near Sydney, how about Bowral? It is not a popular tourist destination, but it is a place where daily travellers from Sydney and elsewhere can enjoy a comfortable day.
(I usually spend about three or four hours with my wife.)
The scenery, food, drink, shopping and vintage antiques browsing!!!
The main street is Bong Bong Street. There are many great boutiques and cafes, and you can walk around and find great lunch spots. For vintage lovers, Dirty Janes Bowral is absolutely recommended. full of fabulous stalls! And there's a great Lancelot Hill Antiques around too.
The surrounding areas, including Bowral, Mittagong, Berrima, Burradoo and Moss Vale, have beautiful autumn scenery.
Bowral is located 114 kilometres southwest of Sydney.
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS NSW | Australia Spring Season
Discovering the mystical Highlands of Australia!
Fitzroy Falls @ Morton National Park
Shell Harbour
Crookwell Wind Farm
Bowral Festival & Tulip Time
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Australia Summer Trip 2016
My solo adventure on the other side of the world
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Mt Macedon Autumn|墨尔本马其顿山的秋天|Top Tourist Destinations of Melbourne
墨尔本西北的马其顿山（Mount Macedon)金色的秋天已来临，又到了美丽的赏枫时节。从Easter开始直到 5月初是赏枫的最佳时间.
Tree-clad Mount Macedon can be seen from every corner of the region, even Melbourne. Up close it is even more impressive; a place home to gardens and wild bush, of natural attractions and adventure.
See glimpses of magnificent mansions and the exotic European plantings that change with every season as well as getting up close and personal with native wildlife and birds that inhabit the tall mountain ash forest.
The natural wonderland of Mount Macedon is a place to escape and enjoy contemplation. Hike the wonderful walking trails over the mountain or have a peaceful lunch at Sanatorium Lake or one of the many picnic spots that can be found in the area.
An emotive experience can be found on the summit of Mount Macedon at the Memorial Cross, which commemorates Australia’s war fallen and has views that take in the entire southern plain towards Port Phillip Bay.
The true wonder of Mount Macedon for many visitors is the garden estates. Some of these are open to the public on occasion, while others are open year round, taking you back to a time when Mount Macedon was the playground for the rich and famous.
Bundanoon Village, NSW, Australia
Bundanoon in The Southern Highlands has Excellent Accommodation, there are many Things to Do, Places to Go and many Restaurants, Cafes and even a wonderful Olde Worlde Pub. Just 90 minutes from Canberra and Sydney it is close enough to visit with young children, and you can experience a completely different Country Lifestyle.
There is even a Farm Stay called Morvern Valley where you can rent a cottage for a weekend or a week! Morvern Valley was one of the earliest guest accommodations in Bundanoon.
In Bundanoon you can go Horse Riding, or Visit the Sunnatarum Monastry. See Glow Worms in a ‘must do’ twilight adventure walk. The Morton National Park has great bushwalking including Fairy Bower Waterfalls, Erith Coal Mine. Coal Creek, Lovers Walk, Fossil Beds, Bonnie View, The Grand Canyon, Beauchamp Cliffs, Tooth’s Lookout, Gambell’s Rest and more!
Hamilton Hume (of later Hume and Hovell fame) has generally been credited as the first white man to find his way to the Bowral/Moss Vale locality in 1814. Dr. Charles Throsby first mentions this exact area in his diary in 1818. In his expedition diary he refers to Bundanoon as Bantanoon - from the local aboriginal name meaning place of deep gullies”.
The site of the present village of Bundanoon had been a meeting and trading place for the Wadi-wadi and Gandangara peoples for centuries. Coal creek which crosses Morvern Valley Bundanoon was a creek used by these peoples. There are sharpening grooves and rock paintings on the surfaces of the sandstone of Coal Creek near to Morvern Valley of these indigenous peoples.
The deep gullies at Bundanoon were seen as a barrier to communication and travel. Indeed Throsby realized looking out over the cliffs that there was to be no easy access to the coast from this area which is what he had been seeking. But the magnificent scenery of The Gullies so impressed Throsby, that he immediately began to urge Governor Lachlan Macquarie to declare what we call today a heritage reserve, of a thousand acres, over the area (granted in 1824) next to Morvern Valley Farm Stay. This natural reserve Charles Throsby was so dedicated to preserve, is today the Bundanoon section of the Morton National Park just a 500 meter walk from Morvern Valley.
The Gullies with their beautiful lookouts, waterfalls and escarpments were to later be one of the most important ingredients in the development of the village. The Gullies had immense visual value for tourism – indeed the deep gullies have made Bundanoon what it is today.
Early settlement of Europeans in this area of The Southern Highlands had mainly been in the vicinity of Berrima and Suttons Forest. But after the Land Act of 1861 was passed, selectors began taking up land towards present day Bundanoon. Travelling was very hard in the early days for these settlers as the railway did not arrive until 1868.
Horseback, Bullock teams and sturdy horse and carts were the only transport available for people, supplies and equipment. The Morvern Valley Original Homestead fronts onto Grey Gum Lane - this narrow lane was the original route the first explorers traversed to open up the Southern areas of NSW – the ‘main road’ of its time!
Bundanoon was merely a few scattered farms until the arrival of the Railway en route to Goulburn in 1868. Morvern Valley was one of those scattered farms since 1862. The Tooth Family were one of the very Earliest Settlers of Bundanoon. There were 86 guesthouses in Bundanoon and Morvern Valley operated as one of these as early as 1896.