YowCH & Grace

Melbourne Trip Part 2/3
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08 Sept, Tuesday:
Paul brought YowCH to Balwyn to pick up the rented car. Hertz didn’t have the Camry we booked and gave us a Holden Omega instead. The Holden was an upgrade in drive quality, but downgrade in fuel consumption (finally about 9km/L).

We drove to Frankston, Mornington, Dromana, and Arthur’s Seat and visited Enchanted Maze and Tuck’s Ridge Vineyard then returned to Melbourne.

In the evening, we had dinner with Mr Teh (TYLin chairman), Dr Kabir and Terry Hulme and family at Westfield at Doncaster.

09 Sept, Wednesday:
We drove off to the Grampians, passing Ballarat, Beaufort, Ararat (lunch), Pomonal and ending at Hall’s Gap. We reached D’Alton Lodges about 2:50pm and started off to the hiking trails immediately.

The first and easiest was Boroka Look-out, then Reed’s Look-out, The Balconies (previously Jaws of Death) and then Mackenzie Falls. We are proud to say that we made that 1.4km round-trip hike with 110m vertical steps (about 30 stories). By the time we are back at the car, the sun has set and we drove down the winding, narrow, unlit and cliff-hugging mountain road in darkness. Dinner was in the lodge, being toast bread and ham we brought along.

A panoramic view:

A panoramic view:

10 Sept, Thursday:
Setting out early in the morning to Lake Bellfield (reservoir), then drove to Pomonal for the Lavender Patch, then rushed on to Ballarat for Sovereign Hill.

A panoramic view:

We spent the whole afternoon at Sovereign Hill, which is one extensively preserved historical theme park.

After Sovereign Hill, we drove to Dr Kabir’s home for dinner. Liza’s Bangladeshi cooking was fantastic. On our way back to the Ngs’ place we were stopped by the police at a road block for alcohol test!

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