Friday, 19 March 2021

Meteor sightings in the Casey Cardinia area

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This region is world famous for the Cranbourne Meteorites which were unearthed between 1853 and 2008. I have written about them here . I ha...
Monday, 15 March 2021

Koalas at Yannathan

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In the last post, which was about a report of a trip taken from Berwick to Yannathan in 1887 (see here ), the unnamed writer of the report s...
Wednesday, 10 March 2021

A trip to Yannathan - 1887

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This interesting article of  a trip from Berwick to Yannathan is from 1887. The route taken was the Berwick-Clyde Road, the South Gippsland ...
Thursday, 25 February 2021

Progress of Pearcedale - hindered by bad roads - 1922

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The Age newspaper of April 5, 1922 (see here ) published an article on Pearcedale, about the vile unmade tracks that masquerade as roads in...
Friday, 19 February 2021

Farming at Berwick - 1876

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This account of farming at Berwick was published in the Melbourne Leader of March 25, 1876 (see here ). It talks about three farmers, James ...
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Saturday, 30 January 2021

Langwarrin Estate and Donald Larnach

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Langwarrin Estate , owned by Donald Larnach, was sub-divided and put up for sale in 1888. We have some information on Larnach's Estate f...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

The Rocking Stone - 'a tottery lump of granite'

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The Rocking Stone is located somewhere between Ferntree Gully and Narre Warren. In 1917 the Melbourne Walking Club made three attempts to lo...