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Big Golden Mountain

Sun Loong, world's longest imperial dragon

In the Victorian gold rush city of Bendigo, Russell Jack, Chinese Australian community leader, has never let the lack of a few million stand between him and his vision. The museum that Jack built is home to the world's oldest and longest Chinese imperial dragons.


Bogong mountain high

Bogong High Plains

Within another year this dusty ribbon of gravel will become another busy touring route for weekend warriors, when the last stretch across the high plains is tar-sealed. Now is the time to experience the magic...


Brush strokes by the Bay

Artist working at Rickett's Point

Melbourne’s Coastal Art Trail around Port Phillip Bay celebrates the generations of Australian artists who have painted our favourite coastal landscapes.


By EOS along the Great Ocean Road

Along the famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia

Test-driving a gutsy Volkswagen EOS convertible along Victoria’s Ocean Road is a real challenge.


Divine Docklands

Fiona Harper questions the wisdom of the old proverb 'it is better to travel than to arrive' after a coastal passage that ends in Melbourne's Docklands district.


Dog Gone

You need a holiday - well, maybe Spot (or Fido or Tiddles) does too. Sheriden Rhodes takes a tour of some pet friendly places that have all earned a paw star rating!


Echuca, historic river port on the Murray

Paddlesteamer on the Murray at Echuca

At Echuca, where the Campaspe and the Goulburn run into the mighty Murray, floods –and drought – were always been a way of life for Australia's largest inland river port.


Eureka!

Eureka flag

At dawn on December 3, 1854, thirty or more men died when British redcoats and colonial police attacked a makeshift stockade manned by rebel miners on the gold fields west of Melbourne.

 


From bagpipes to opium pipes on the Victorian goldfields

Beechworth's Old Telegraph Station

Beechworth's colourful Celtic and Chinese heritage


Gimme shelter...

Wallace's Hut, Bogong High Plains

Many of the rough-hewn shelter huts scattered across the Australian Alps represent the legacy of earlier, more innocent visitors, including the now-banished mountain cattlemen.


Golf the Marvellous Mornington

The award winning Dunes Golf Links, one of Australia's premier public access courses.

Offering more than 20 places to play the great game, Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula has become the 'golf coast' of Australia.


Great Alpine Road: a road for all seasons

Victoria's touring route for all seasons


Great Ocean Road

Twelve Apostles / Surf beach, Great Ocean Road

Experience one of Australia's most dramatic landscapes: a cliff-hanging scenic drive around Victoria's southwestern coastline on the Great Ocean Road.


Harley Heaven

Two on a Harley

Pull on your leathers to explore the Mornington Peninsula, ‘Melbourne’s backyard’, suggests Philip Game


Heart of Gold

General store / Welcome Stranger monument, Dunolly

Victoria’s heart of gold is a land of faded glories, of dreams which won’t quite die.


Huts of the High Country

Hundreds of rudimentary huts dotted throughout Victoria's majestic alpine areas have provided shelter and succour for generations of cattlemen and casual visitors alike.


In the Mood for Love

Some getaways simply inspire romance.


Melbourne - from the Bizarre to the Surreal

One of Melbourne's funky street sculptures (above); Phil Hall, curator of the Contempora outdoor sculpture festival, points out a prize example of Melbourne street art (right)

Melbourne's street art sometimes has visitors wondering whether it's their eyes or Melbourne itself that is playing tricks on them.


Melbourne Marvels

Look to the sophisticated state capital of Victoria for some of the best shopping Down Under.


Misty mountains gourmet

The lush dairy country inland from the Great ocean Road is milking its rich natural assets for the benefit of the hungry visitor. The official name is Corangamite Shire - Sheriden Rhodes simply says its delicious.


Re-writing the History of the Grampians:

A skylight window, at the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre (above): McKenzie Falls, in the Grampians (right)

The history of the Grampians, the oldest National Park in Victoria (Australia), has just undergone drastic revision.


Spa-ing partners

A guest enjoys the soothing waters at The Hepburn Spa Resort (above); Mineral water is free for the taking at Soda Springs, (right)

The twin towns of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, in Victoria, are united by the outstanding healing qualities of their natural mineral springs


To Market, To Market

Pick up a unique item of clothing or headware.

Australia is home to some of the world's best country markets. From the grand dame of craft markets, to bustling farmers markets, Sheriden Rhodes takes a look.


Who pays the Piper?

Early morning, Piper Street

In Kyneton’s Piper Street the vision, the drive and the creativity of a handful of people has created a dining and shopping strip as alluring as any in metropolitan Melbourne.


 

 
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