The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Breezes...
Jumped on a bus and headed for the hills today,hoping it would be slightly cooler "up there".
Got to Belgrave and then we decided to ride the Gembrook bus,just to have a quick gander at the town after nearly 10 years.
Well Emerald Village isn't a village anymore,Cockatoo is almost a city,Selby has shops galore these days and Gembrook has more houses and shops than you could shake a stick at.
Not a sign anywhere of the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires,which is great on one hand but the piles of dry leaves,tree branches and weeds growing from the spouting of the Parks Vic office was a tad worrying !
The traffic was like Melbourne peak hour,good to see plenty of tourists boosting the rural economies.
The warm breeze smelt of eucalyptus,the sky was that blinding blue which makes your eyes water,the creeks were mostly dry but the thousands of tree ferns were flourishing;their greenery almost indecent in mid-Summer.
The twisting road climbed,allowing us to see right down into people's yards -the various patios(concrete has made a huge comeback),the gardens(dust bowl is the new must-have lower down while verdent gardens abound higher up).Some enterprising gardeners have built up flourishing vistas of flowers,shrubs and native grasses on almost vertical hill sides(and not a weed to be seen - that's dedication !).
Puffing Billy was in the Gembrook station,disgorging seemingly hundreds of tourists beating a path to Emerald Lake and nearby shops - several were spied almost galloping into the pub.
Along the way I noticed a strange trend of names....
Moody Cow Cafe (Emerald)
Mad Cow Cafe (Cockatoo)
(Is there some message in there for our future beef schnitznels???)
Kiss The Cook Cafe (Emerald) - speed dating and dining with a difference ?
The Green Bean Cafe(Belgrave) - fun with fibre at the meat market ?
The Possum's Cottage Tea Rooms (Emerald) - come hither with claws?
We returned to Belgrave,ate a delicious meal,wandered for a stickybeak and then caught the (air conditioned) bus home -to return to sweltering heat.
*sigh*
There's breezes in them thar hills....
Got to Belgrave and then we decided to ride the Gembrook bus,just to have a quick gander at the town after nearly 10 years.
Well Emerald Village isn't a village anymore,Cockatoo is almost a city,Selby has shops galore these days and Gembrook has more houses and shops than you could shake a stick at.
Not a sign anywhere of the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires,which is great on one hand but the piles of dry leaves,tree branches and weeds growing from the spouting of the Parks Vic office was a tad worrying !
The traffic was like Melbourne peak hour,good to see plenty of tourists boosting the rural economies.
The warm breeze smelt of eucalyptus,the sky was that blinding blue which makes your eyes water,the creeks were mostly dry but the thousands of tree ferns were flourishing;their greenery almost indecent in mid-Summer.
The twisting road climbed,allowing us to see right down into people's yards -the various patios(concrete has made a huge comeback),the gardens(dust bowl is the new must-have lower down while verdent gardens abound higher up).Some enterprising gardeners have built up flourishing vistas of flowers,shrubs and native grasses on almost vertical hill sides(and not a weed to be seen - that's dedication !).
Puffing Billy was in the Gembrook station,disgorging seemingly hundreds of tourists beating a path to Emerald Lake and nearby shops - several were spied almost galloping into the pub.
Along the way I noticed a strange trend of names....
Moody Cow Cafe (Emerald)
Mad Cow Cafe (Cockatoo)
(Is there some message in there for our future beef schnitznels???)
Kiss The Cook Cafe (Emerald) - speed dating and dining with a difference ?
The Green Bean Cafe(Belgrave) - fun with fibre at the meat market ?
The Possum's Cottage Tea Rooms (Emerald) - come hither with claws?
We returned to Belgrave,ate a delicious meal,wandered for a stickybeak and then caught the (air conditioned) bus home -to return to sweltering heat.
*sigh*
There's breezes in them thar hills....
posted by Bugs at 5:59 pm
2 Comments:
I should have been a pair of possum's claws
scuttling across the Emerald hills
LMAO
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