Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve, Warrnambool Whilst camping in Killarney (a few minutes away from Port Fairy) we spent the morning at the Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve. A great place to explore if you are looking for things to do with kids in Port Fairy. “Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve was the first national park declared in Victoria [...]
Mornington Peninsula Walks with kids Visiting the Bushrangers Bay Rockpools Making our way around the big rock to the rockpools Bushrangers Bay is one of our absolute favourite walks. Ross and I both remember doing this walk countless times as kids and now our kids get to enjoy this paradise also. Located 1.5 hours [...]
Newport Lakes is a beautiful hidden bushland setting just over the Westgate Bridge in Newport. Less than 15 minutes from home! Winner! Newport Lakes boasts two lakes within the 33 hectare park. There are plenty of undulating walking and running tracks and would be a good place for some hill training (as it’s very flat around [...]
The Redwood Forest, Warburton is located just 15 minutes’ drive through the township of Warburton. It is home to the magical Californian Redwood tree plantation. This has been popping up on social media a bit over the past few months and I can’t believe the number of times we have been to and through Warburton and [...]
Driving over the Westgate Bridge and looking down you could easily think there had been some sort of toxic spill! But, the bright pink colour in the salt lake you can see is caused by a totally natural phenomenon. This is Westgate Park, the home of Melbourne’s very own pink lake. What makes the Westgate Park [...]
The beautiful Rainforest Gallery can be found not far from Warburton, it’s one of the Yarra Valley’s hidden gems; The Warburton Rainforest Gallery. There are two activities here to enjoy. The first is a 40 metre long observation platform (apparently one of only three of its type in Australia) which takes you into the rainforest canopy [...]
We had a great March long weekend camping at the Doon Reserve Caravan Park. This was our second visit to this park and here is our review. To be honest, this is not our normal style of camping. Back before the kids we used to go camping in the bush and gave dirty looks [...]
The Peninsula Picnic is one of the Mornington Peninsula’s premier family friendly food, wine and music festivals and we were excited to attend both the 2017 and 2018 events. Our first introduction to live music with the kids was The Lost Lands which was awesome. So we were keen to experience more live music events. The [...]
Ross and I took the kids to see the Hoodoo Gurus at a Melbourne Zoo twilight concert in perfect summer weather in February 2017. It was awesome! Our introduction to live music was The Lost Lands Festival and now we can’t get enough live music events as a family - we also love the Peninsula Picnic. There [...]
Mmmm – fresh raspberries and blackberries – need I say more! Fat, ripe blackberries At The Bramble Farm in Langwarrin you can pick as many berries as you like – as we did Christmas Eve - it is very easy to spend an hour or so here picking your own berries. The Bramble Farm [...]
