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This month's featured story angles are:
Giant Gippsland Earthworms
The verdant land around Bass provides a conduit between
Melbourne and
Phillip
Island. While a steady stream of visitors passes through this area en route to the natural wonders of the island, one of Australia’s strangest natural wonders lies unseen (and largely unknown) beneath the ground.
French Island Ecotourism
French
Island sounds too good to be true: a semi-wilderness escape, ringed by water, just 65 kilometres south-east of
Melbourne. Rod Johnston of French Island Eco Tours has been introducing visitors to this unique place for more than a decade, and it still gives him pleasure. “We have had people who have taken the tour seven times,” Mr Johnston says. “I fell in love with this place when I first came here, and lots of other people seem to also.”
Craft Victoria
Many of
Melbourne’s most stunning secrets are located behind seemingly anonymous doors, down mysterious stairways or along evocative alleys. Craft
Victoria is a perfect example. A plain black door and a descending staircase lead visitors to a subterranean space where the air seems to buzz with creativity.
Sovereign Hill
When Nicole Sexton goes home at night, it is the 21st Century. While she’s at work, however, she is in the 1850s. In fact, for almost two decades she has worked in the 1850s. This feat of calendar-bending has been achieved not via time machine but through Ms Sexton’s long association with Sovereign Hill. In this recreated goldfields township spread across 25 hectares the buildings, costumes, activities and even prejudices belong to the 1850s. This was the time when host city Ballarat was part of the world’s richest-ever alluvial goldfields.
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