The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum. It’s the fun museum. It’s the one with dinosaurs and bugs and lots of kids. There are 18 permanent exhibitions on various science and history themes such as dinosaurs, marine life, and evolution as well as an indoor forest, a children’s area, and a wonderful …
Of all the wildlife parks I’ve visited so far, Healesville Sanctuary is my favourite. At Bundoora Park, you can see kangaroos and emus, but you can’t get close to them. The Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary has the best kangaroo experience, but it’s in Tasmania. The Melbourne Aquarium is terrific for seeing marine animals and the Werribee Open …
Almost immediately after I hit the Publish button on Small differences between Miami and Melbourne, I thought of more things I should have written about. I realised there would be more of these kinds of entries because there is so much to learn and so much that is different. So, here are more small differences. …
The Queen Victoria Market is a huge open air market in Melbourne’s central business district (CBD). It’s a major landmark and the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere. Locals call it the Queen Vic Market or the Vic Market. It has a colourful history. Before it was a market, the site was part …
Here’s a tip on how to take good pictures. Photography can be complicated, but this is one tip for point and shoot. There are lots of people snapping pictures at the Twelve Apostles. Bad pictures. Some of them have fancy DSLR cameras. Others have simple point-and-shoot cameras or are using mobile devices. This is not …
Travelling the Great Ocean Road is an absolute must if you’re in Victoria. The Great Ocean Road is 243 kilometres (151 mi) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia. It begins in Torquay and finishes at Allansford near Warrnambool. Built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, it winds through varying terrain along the coast providing …
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