Day Trips
JANUARY
Monday 26th January – 11:00am onwards
Our annual Australia Day family picnic at Healesville, Queens Park, 36 Don Road, Healesville, up the front of the park, close to Maroondah Highway and the Bakery, for coffee and food.
BYO everything, chairs, food, drinks, from 11.00 am onwards.
FEBRUARY:
Thursday 12th February – 10:30am
We will be visiting The Fox Classic Car Collection. This is a collection of the worlds rarest and most prestigious vehicles as collected by Lindsay Fox over the past 50 years.
Where: 749-755 Collins Street, Docklands.
We will be travelling by train to Southern Cross station. Then a short walk to the Museum.
Cost is $9.50 per person (seniors) and will be payable on the day. A tour is organised for 10.30am for approximately one hour.
Lunch venue will be advised further.
MARCH:
Thursday 12th March – Day Trip
We are looking for expressions of interest for a bus trip to Ballarat to see the renowned Begonia Festival.
If we have enough people interested, we can then go ahead and organise a bus. This will be a full day with stops along the way, and lunch.
Please put your name on the list if you will be joining us.
APRIL:
Wednesday 1st April
We are planning a visit to the Redwood Forest at Cement Creek Road, East Warburton.
Lunch at Warburton. More details to follow.
Wednesday 29th April – Day Trip
An outing to Fort Nepean at Portsea is being organised. This will be a bus trip. Further details to follow.
Please direct any queries to: Karalee Moore – Day Tours Convenor (see club Contact List for email and phone numbers)
DAY TRIP REPORTS
APRIL 2021 OUTING
Our visit to Mont De Lancey Historic Homestead on April 29 was enjoyed by 37 Probians. We had a lovely warm and sunny day for our tours around the historical buildings on site. A short video was shown on the history of Mont De Lancey before heading out to view the historical sites with our guides. The 1880’s homestead, chapel, kitchen, laundry, vintage tool shed and extensive museum showed us just how hard it was living day to day in the early days. We also watched a working Blacksmith and Wood Turner. The gardens were also magnificent. Our lunch prepared by Daniel at Two Peas in their Pod Café was delicious, and it was so nice being able to eat outdoors , which most of us did.
Thank you to Jill Sebire and volunteers who looked after us so well on the day.
Panorama Garden Estate :
This was a very pleasant trip to what is the largest private garden in Australia (over 25 acres!) at Red Hill.
