This Retired Life

30/08/2024

📍Lightning Ridge: Opals, art and a thermal pool.

29/08/2024

Join us as we travel north hoping for warmer weather.
Follow for the next instalment when we head into QLD

Tvan Winter AdventureLong Paddock to White CliffsHave we made a mistake? Join us as we journey up the Long Paddock and spend a couple of nights at a station ...

27/08/2024

📍Charlotte Plains Station QLD
Where you can have a campfire, soak in the hot bore baths and even buy a beer.

25/08/2024

📍Currawinya National Park QLD
So many flowering shrubs.

15/08/2024

From White Cliffs NSW to 📍Hungerford QLD.
Where you open the gate to enter QLD and can get a tasty steak sandwich for lunch at the Royal Mail and buy fuel.
Alas no reception from Telstra

09/08/2024

📍White Cliffs friendly, opal town in outback NSW.
Visit underground homes, buy opal from the people who mine it and enjoy the peace and wide open spaces.

07/08/2024

Silo art and sculptures of the Long Paddock.
📍Hay, Wanganella and Ivanhoe NSW

06/08/2024

Following the Long Paddock stock route up the Cobb Highway with a sculpture trail to follow.
📍Mathoura to Pretty Pine leg.

04/08/2024

More silo art this stop in
📍Rochester Victoria
Also murals in Iddles Lane.

29/07/2024

📍Colbinabbin Victoria impressive solo art and a super friendly town! Where have you seen great silo art?

28/07/2024

Moama Lights. A magical walk by the river.
📍Moama NSW
Inspired by Banjo Patterson’s Poem
‘The Daylight is Dying’
The daylight is dying
Away in the west,
The wild birds are flying
In silence to rest;
In leafage and frondage
Where shadows are deep,
They pass to its bo***ge --
The kingdom of sleep.
And watched in their sleeping
By stars in the height,
They rest in your keeping,
Oh, wonderful night.

13/07/2024

July in the garden.

05/07/2024

A walk on Dromana Beach and a pie from Millers. What a lovely way to spend a winter day. Follow us for more day trip, activity and travel ideas.

28/06/2024

Day Trip Idea J Ward in Ararat. First a gaol and then an asylum for the criminally insane.
⏰ Monday to Friday 10:00 am and 1:00pm, Saturday, Sunday and School Holidays 10:00, 11:00, 1:00 and 2:00

21/06/2024

📍Dunkeld Victoria: historic old gaol house and some great eating options

14/06/2024

Tae Rak UNESCO site Victoria one of only 20 UNESCO sites in Australia. An aquaculture system that was built 6,600 years ago. And people think that the pyramids are old! What is the oldest site you have visited?

07/06/2024

June in the garden.

05/06/2024

Camping in the Howqua Hills

Looking for a great place to camp with a little bit of history? The Howqua Hills out from Mansfield might be the place for you. Join us as we cook dinner on the fire, visit Fry’s Hut, a cattleman’s hut at Sheepyard Flat and explore the remnants of the area’s gold mining history.

Camping in the Howqua HillsLooking for a great place to camp with a little bit of history? The Howqua Hills out from Mansfield might be the place for you. Jo...

02/06/2024

When you go out for lunch and a robot brings you your meal! Feels like something out of the Jetsons!

31/05/2024

There are more than 20 cattlemen’s huts in the high country. Have you visited any? Which is your favourite?

26/05/2024

Things to do at Sheepyard Flat. Walk to the old chimney and tunnel.

24/05/2024

Camping in the Howqua Hills. Where do you like to camp?

23/05/2024

For those who can’t get away and want the feeling of sitting by a mountain stream in their own home or office. Let the river sounds wash that stress away.

Feel Like you are sitting relaxing by a Mountain Stream in the Victorian High Country.Relax to the soothing sounds of a beautiful mountain stream while the b...

18/05/2024

📍Moonlit Sanctuary in Pearcedale Victoria, where it’s easy to get up close to some of our native animals.
⏰ Daytime Admission 9:00 - 4:00 pm evening admission is also available.
Follow us for more day trip ideas.

11/05/2024

Having fun spotting the aurora tonight.

11/05/2024

McCrae Homestead in McCrae is a great place to learn some of the early history of white settlement on the Mornington Peninsula.
⏰ Sundays 11:00 - 4:00
⚠️ Closed July and August.

06/05/2024

May in the garden.

05/05/2024

Just added a Helios 44-3 to the collection and adapted it to the Sony FX-30I think both the Helios 44-2 and 44-3 give outstanding results and produce the bes...

01/05/2024

Is Bright the best mountain town? What do you think?

Is Bright the best high country town in Australia?Come with us as we explore all that Bright has to offer in April from great places to eat, wonderful waterf...

29/04/2024

McCrae lighthouse and beach a lovely beach for a meander.