Hanging Rock at Mount Macedon Ranges

Hanging Rock also known as Mount Diogenes, is a popular place for Sunday picnic and offering short and long trails for hikers.The native forest is filled with green bushes and trees providing the hikers' ample shade when hiking up towards the peak of Mount Macedon Ranges. 

According to Wikipedia, the rocks are formed about 6 millions ago from an extinct volcano that rose 1010 m above the ground. Located near to the townships of Woodend, Mount Macedon offers scenic drive, best of "Macedonia" regional wineries, gardens and wildlife to the visitors.  The history of Hanging Rock is associated the horse racing since 1880 and was the setting for a novel and film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" where a couple of school girls went missing during a school trip at the Rock. Till today, no one knows what happened to them.......interesting facts or fiction? You will have to find out yourself!!!

The Docklands

Vespa scooter.

Girl lingering about the pillars.

Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

Melbourne Exhibition Centre building design that maximizes the sunlight.

Reflection of Polly Woodside.

Melbourne Tall Ship - The Polly Woodside.

The Docklands - Yarra River.

The Fish restaurant.

Building Reflection.

The Crowne Plaza Building.

The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road is a journey to one of Australia finest coastal drive in Victoria. It is home to the Twelve Apostles rock formation. Over the years due to weather and powering tides, several rocks formation have collapsed and a few of them are left standing.

The 243 km journey which starts from Melbourne City and ends in Warrnambool city offers a traveler a unique drive experience passing through Geelong City, stopping for a breathtaking view at Torquay coastal landscape but do expect some bumps and windy roads ahead into the mountain ranges. Along the coastal drive, there are several cities that you should pay a visit such as Geelong City, Anglesea, surf city -Torquay, Apollo Bay and Port Campbell.

Torquay city popular beach front.

The Moby Cafe, a beach house turned into a cozy restaurant, which I stopped by for a rest and have a decent Breakfast Panini and a cup of cuppacino.

Stop by for "nature call" ...hehehe.

One of the beach on the Great Ocean Road on B100.

That's the road sign stop for us. Anyone know its meaning?

 Visitors walking towards the far end to get a better view of the Twelve Apostles.

The Twelve Apostles natural rock formation.

 Foliage and vegetation at Twelve Apostle.

Twelve Apostles

The Twelve Apostles from the western viewpoint.

The Twelve Apostles from the eastern viewpoint, at last...

Geelong City - Victoria

Geelong City is situated to the west of Melbourne city, located on on the mouth Barwon River and on Corio Bay in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is about 75 kilometres (approximately 47 miles) to the south west of the state capital city, Melbourne.

The name Geelong is officiated by Governor Richard Burke and is derived from an aboriginal name for the region, Jillong. The residents are known as Geelongites and home to the Australian Football Rules (AFL), the nicknamed The Cats.

Corio Bay - Home of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. 

Cunningham Pier, a popular place for fishing.

Resident Geelongites spending a great deal of time happy fishing.

Palm Tree at Geelong waterfront.

Eastern Beach is a popular spot for swimming and water recreation activities and the sea bath is protected against shark attack.  

Another attraction in Geelong city, is the Botanic Garden which I couldn't spare some times to visit it. Definitely will come back again for a weekend trip. 

Eastern Beach walk platform and Corio Bay in the background.

Funny Oarsmen statue that awaits every visitors.

The Bird of Paradise

The Bird of Paradise belongs to the Strelitzia family and originated from South Africa. The leaves are usually large, from 30–200 cm long and 10–80 cm broad.

The Bird Paradise with its distinctive head stem.

The flowers are produced in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe. They are pollinated by sunbirds (nectar birds), which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers.

The leaves shape is similar to a banana leaf in appearance but with a longer petiole, and arranged strictly in two ranks to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage.

The weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the Sunbird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits.

The Royal Melbourne Show 2010

The Border Leicester breed has been proven to be an important maternal breed in Australia. First cross Border Merino ewes are sought after by leading Australian lamb breeders across the country because of their ability to produce large numbers of high quality lambs and wool over a wide range of climatic conditions.

A shaved ewe with its baby lamb.

The Grand Pavilion and Town Square at Melbourne Showground where the crowd just love The Boyz!!

The Dare Devil Jump!

The Boyz just awesome!!

Decades old farm machinery on display.

PIE is the sky, that's what they called it....similar like The Eye of London.

Schi Zu, dog on show.

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. 

A Pug doggie.

A Llama is a much larger animal. They have been used as guard animals for alpacas. It is really not recommended though. Their larger size makes them great as a pack animal. They are also used for pulling carts.

An alpaca is approximately half the size of a llama. Too small to use for carting or packing. An alpacas function is to grow beautiful fleece.

Long haired Llama.

Fun rides for family.