Grant’s picnic ground is in Kallista, and is part of Sherbrooke Forest. To get to it you need to drive through Belgrave up Monbulk Road, or through Monbulk and down Monbulk Road. It’s just near the roundabout in Kallista. This is a popular tourist spot and every day you’ll see tourist buses there with loads…
Category: Holiday activities
Holiday Season – Lilydale Lake Park
Looking further in the Dandenong Ranges and moving towards the Yarra Valley, you’ll find the Lilydale Lake and Park. Lovely place to take your family. Room to play games, to go for walks or runs, to watch the multitude of birdlife there or just enjoy the serenity of the place.
Holiday Season – Gembrook
A bit further up the road from Emerald is Gembrook, where the Puffing Billy stops and then makes its return trip to Belgrave via Emerald. Again, a lovely drive through the Dandenong Ranges region. Gembrook has a monthly market, except for December, being held on the fourth Sunday of the month at Puffing Billy Railway…
Holiday Season – Emerald
As well as catching the Puffing Billy to Emerald, you can drive there. It’s a scenic drive along the Belgrave-Hallam Road in the Dandenong Ranges region. Once there you can visit the model train museum, walk around the lake and park, go on the paddle boats, feed the ducks and have lunch on the lawns…
Things to do in the holiday season – Puffing Billy
Here, in Australia, it’s also school holidays – the summer period. And so I intend highlighting places to visit in my region for readers, should you be looking for somewhere to visit or something to do. First off, I want to showcase the Puffing Billy steam train. My husband I hear the whistle every day…