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| Healesville Sanctuary. A wildlife park in the centre of the valley. The universal koalas a friendly wombat and Rich being faced down by a Pelican. |
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At the sanctuary they have a famous birds of prey display. After the kite and a small hawk, they brought the wedge tailed eagle out onto the stage. Sadly for the resident Eagle at the sanctuary, there are a pair of local Eagles as well who don't really want him in their territiry this is the moment when the wild eagle had a bit of a fight with the sanctuary guy Jess. Both seemed to come off OK but I think there was a bit of a damaged ego... |
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 The gallery in the valley at TarraWarra, as well as having uninterupted views of the valley it has a great collection of australian artists. |
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5:30 am even before dawn and the balloon is just starting to light. |
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Up up and away in our beautiful, our beautiful balloooooooon. |
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Ready for the off. |
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Smoke in the valley from a controlled burn off at the end of the season. |
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 Warburton (sadly no bread as far as we could tell) has a suspension bridge, and local state park with some of the oldest trees in Victoria. This is the Ada tree, named after a lady who lived in the area and who discovered the trees. They are now thought to be around 400 years old. |
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The tree is so big, we could only get a photo of the bottom of it !!! |
| The view from our guest house, its good to wake up to. |  |
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Kinglake National Park the site of the bushfires in Feb 2009, it still hasn't recovered at all in some parts. |
