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If you’re into walking then I’ve also done the Sherbrooke Falls walk although at less than 45 minutes this is more of a short stroll than a full on bushwalk. Nonetheless, at the popular picnic area where you park, you cannot fail to be impressed by the mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans a.k.a. swamp gum in Tassie). You pass through these at the start of the walk and drift along until you loop around the falls over a bridge. Best viewed after rain if you want to see plenty of water, it is an easy track to follow and walk on.
Written Dec 10, 2011
I next drove up to the nearby Mount Dandenong Arboretum. Here there is a carpark, a picnic table and little else save the trees, of which there are 16 hectares of deciduous and conifer varieties. Should you walk among them you may reach a dirt road below and that track you see immediately across the other side is the Mechanics Track, a 2km trail linking the Mount Dandenong Tourist Drive with Olinda Falls.
The track can be slightly boggy in the wet so hiking shoes are advised but the walk through dense thickets of tree ferns beside the gurgling stream is a delight; otherwise though the falls themselves are fairly minor, though attractive. You can also take the option to park at the nearby carpark and then it’s only a short, but steep, hike to the cascades.
Written Dec 10, 2011
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We found a glossy brochure advertising this place so we took a run up to have a looksee. It is not far from Olinda township - in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges - and from what we could see of it it was really something.
I say what we could see - because we didn't have a look at the gardens because I thought the entrance charge was extreme. $7-50, $5 concession, $20 family. I was only in the mood for a quick look.
Maybe we will go back another time. Have lunch in what looks like an agreeable cafe and then stroll in the formal gardens.
The deck of the cafe is the only place you can see into the gardens from.
The nursery is amazing with many rare and unusual plants - not the rows and rows of petunias and azaleas one usually sees - and lots of garden art. Fountains, urns etc. (Very expensive alas, top of the range.)
I was totally inspired and we plan to go back.
I have just checked out the website and I definitely plan to go back. The gardens look quite extraordinary.
The brochure does not mention any charge to go into the gardens - no mention at all - and it just made me cross to find out there was.
Updated Jan 6, 2010
Address: 89 Olinda-Monbulk Road, Olinda VIC
Phone: (03) 97510168
Website: http://cloudehill.com.au/index.cfm?pg=home
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It was a shame we had to keep on driving through it because we couldn't find a park. It was the day ofter Boxing Day - and it was swarming! But we did go to Cloudehill Gardens & Nursery which is a few...
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Olinda, in the Dandenong Ranges, about an hours drive east of Melbourne is a delightful place in any season. The flora and fauna is picturesque in any season.
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As mountains go, Mount Dandenong wouldn't really rate in terms of height and mass but, don't try telling that to Melbournians for this place is deservedly revered in Australia's second biggest...
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