A drive down the peninsula

Ah what a long time between posts! Not for want of photos, mind you, more because there are so many photos to put online and yap about. And excuse the overly wide shots for this blog layout...

So a little while ago, we went for a drive



down to Heronswood, a house built in the 1860s about 80km out of Melbourne. Actually, I lie, we drove down to visit the Digger's Club nursery and have lunch at the café there. (Not many cafés have set menus of locally grown food for $50 for two courses though!)


Along the way we saw a drive in with two screens! Drive ins are a rarity these days and one iwth two screens Of course it is near the beach in a touristy sort of area...

Heronswood has a lovely view of Port Phillip, aka "the Bay." The Bay was quite calms that day and the views were amazing - much better than the camera can depict. We could see the City quite clearly (what 60km away?) and even Mt Macedon, which is well beyond the City.



Very pretty!


(Excuse the power pole in the pic :-)

We were hungry and in a hurry to get to the café... but things like this were in the way.



There's lots of gardens at Heronswood but we didn't have time to go and look at them. We just saw the gardens around the café. We were hungry, remember? DH was galloping to the café and MiL was not far behind.


The café prides itself on using locally grown produce, including herbs and bits and bobs from borders like these:

(The bees were going nuts over the allium flowers. Totally nuts!)


My entrée (note that entrées are well entrées in Australia, not main meals). Swanky! My first ever terrine :-)


Mmm, lunch!

After lunch, I admired the kapok trees


and we visited the nursery and bought waaay too many fruit trees. DH has ideas of being self sufficient. I have images of every rainbow lorikeet and flying fox on the eastern seaboard eating our fruit before we get to!

On the way home, we popped into a winery - FiL had very much enjoyed their wine with his lunch!


And finally started the drive home, around the end of the Dandenongs. (The car we were in looked very similar to the silver one in the pic, only not the same cos that would be very odd indeed!)