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Well we got back a few hours ago. I'm so tired, and brain is so sore from too much stuff (councelling, moods going up and down etc, very blah)
I took a few hundred pics, but chose just a few to give you an idea of what we saw. We also went to the open range zoo, the pictures are elsewhere atm so hopefully i will get them next week.
Way too many threads to catch up on, hope you missed me
Werribee South beach, the park we stayed at was a minutes walk from the sand. Views of Port Phillip Bay
Chirnside Mansion built by two Scottish squatters & brothers (about a 10 min drive from the park) The rooms are set up with the original furniture and decorations so you can see what the rooms were like back then. The mansion was completed in 1877, and to give you an idea of its size, it has 60 rooms and is set on 400 hectares (used to be almost 1000 before bits got sold off and it got taken over by the Catholic church). Apart from the mansion, Chirnside also has all of these on the same block of land. A parterre, winery, polo field, farm (including a homestead/barns etc built before the mansion for the founding family), lake/grotto, Victorian state rose garden with over 1000 species of rose, theatre, pavillion and hotel/spa/resteraunt. All the things in that list apart from the hotel date back as early as the 1850s or earlier. Apparently it is haunted, in 1908 the lady of the house had her hair caught alight from a bedside candle and did not survive
oh yes...this is my engagement ring
I took a few hundred pics, but chose just a few to give you an idea of what we saw. We also went to the open range zoo, the pictures are elsewhere atm so hopefully i will get them next week.
Way too many threads to catch up on, hope you missed me
Werribee South beach, the park we stayed at was a minutes walk from the sand. Views of Port Phillip Bay
Chirnside Mansion built by two Scottish squatters & brothers (about a 10 min drive from the park) The rooms are set up with the original furniture and decorations so you can see what the rooms were like back then. The mansion was completed in 1877, and to give you an idea of its size, it has 60 rooms and is set on 400 hectares (used to be almost 1000 before bits got sold off and it got taken over by the Catholic church). Apart from the mansion, Chirnside also has all of these on the same block of land. A parterre, winery, polo field, farm (including a homestead/barns etc built before the mansion for the founding family), lake/grotto, Victorian state rose garden with over 1000 species of rose, theatre, pavillion and hotel/spa/resteraunt. All the things in that list apart from the hotel date back as early as the 1850s or earlier. Apparently it is haunted, in 1908 the lady of the house had her hair caught alight from a bedside candle and did not survive
oh yes...this is my engagement ring
