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Autumn in Tarra Warra Estate. The Yarra Valley is a region in Victoria, Australia, centred around the Yarra River.Known for its natural beauty, agricultural significance, and as one of Australia's prominent wine-producing areas, the valley stretches from the upper reaches of the river near its source in the Yarra Ranges National Park down to the flatter lands as it approaches Melbourne.
Healesville has been a tourist destination since the 1880s, with the Grand Hotel built in 1888, and the 60-room Gracedale House in 1889. [16] A Tourist and Progress Association was created in the 1920s. [17] The association published "Healesville, The World-famed Tourist Resort", [18] listing over 40 beauty spots and 20 hotels and guest houses.
Yarra Scenic Drive is a tourist drive following the Yarra River, in Victoria, Australia. The route traverses approximately 60 km from Williamstown – where the Yarra empties into Port Phillip Bay – to Warrandyte – Melbourne's first goldfield site on the banks of the Yarra.
Healesville railway station served as the location for the town's station, in the long-running ABC TV serial Bellbird. [4] The Internet Movie Database lists the station as a filming location for the Australian short film Harry's War (1999). The station was used in the railway station scene in John D. Lamond's 1979 "Ozploitation" film, Felicity.
The section of track through the location of the station is now maintained by the Yarra Valley Railway, which is based at Healesville.A tourist service operates on weekends, and school and public holidays, using a restored Walker railmotor, to the rear of the Tarrawarra Estate Winery, just through the tunnel about 3 km east of the former station.
Warburton Highway is a 34 kilometre west–east semi-rural highway on the eastern fringes of Melbourne, Victoria, linking Lilydale to Warburton [4] in the Yarra Valley wine region, as well as Melbourne's closest mountain peak to receive regular snowfall, Mount Donna Buang.
Hodgkinson's good friend, Gold Commissioner for Bendigo and Magistrate for the Yarra Valley, Joseph Panton, named Mt Donna Buang above Warburton in 1865. The sketch map of the upper Yarra water and new bridle track to Woods Point, from Lillydale to Traveller's rest on great mountain road, lithographed at Office of Lands and Survey, 11 Sept ...
The view from restored rail motor 22RM whilst travelling on the Yarra Valley Railway. The Yarra Valley Railway currently runs a railmotor service from Healesville station to a temporary terminus at the back of the Tarrawarra Estate Winery on Sundays and public holidays, crossing the Watts River, under the Donovans Road overbridge and through the historic tunnel.