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Trips Group.
Our Leaders are:
Graham Hardie 5626 1374,
Shirley Patrick. 5623 2637,
Keith Wilson 5623 2321.
FORTHCOMING TRIPS
Graeme is talking about organising a bus trip to Walhalla.
September 6th (Monday) A trip to Palais Theatre St Kilda Daniel O’Donnell with special guest Mary Duff. Pat Kelly at Warragul Travel Club is organising the bus and the concert. Board the bus at the Arts Centre Warragul at 5:15 PM. Doors at the theatre open at 7:00 PM. If you wish to go please organise it with Pat Kelly phone 5623 6998 as soon as possible because seats in the bus are filling fast.
16th to 22nd September 2010 Goulburn Trip, it is arranged to coincide with Floreade. Price $700.00 twinshare + $50 per person per day single supplement.
we will stay at the Goulbourn Heritage Motel, meals are provided by the motel, breakfast and dinner at the motel. Morning tea, light lunch, afternoon tea whilst travelling.
NOTE: THIS ITINERARY BELOW MAY CHANGE SLIGHTLY DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER AND OTHER THINGS. If you wish to know any of the finer details of this trip please contact Graham.
Thursday September 16th, Day 1, Travel to Goulburn via Cann River, Cooma, lunch at Bombala, paid for by us, arrive and settle into the motel for a rest? before dinner at 6:30PM.
Friday September 17th, Day 2, Breakfast at 8:30AM departing at 9:00AM for a guided tour of Goulburn and a guided tour of St Saviours Cathedral before lunch at the motel. An afternoon of shopping awaits. For those that do not wish to shop the coach will drop you back to the motel for another rest.
Saturday September 18th, Day 3, Breakfast at 8:00AM departing at 9:00AM for Canberra to tour various places of interest such as the war memorial, the Federal mint before attending Floriade in the afternoon. A packed lunch will be sent with the coach.
Sunday September 19th, Day 4, Breakfast at 8:00AM departing 9:00AM touring through the Southern highlands including Moss Vale, Bowral with a Guided tour of the Bradman museum and relevant points of interest. Lunch at Berrima and wander through the shops.
Monday September 20th, Day 5, Breakfast at 8:00AM departing 9:00AM for a guided tour of Crookwell heading back to Goulburn and visiting the Mt Wayo lavender farm before lunch heading to the Pelican sheep station for a tour.
Tuesday September 21st, Day 6, Breakfast at 8:00AM departing 9:00AM for Canberra and old Parliament house, Institute of sport and Science museum with a packed lunch along the way.
Wednesday September 22nd, Day 7, Breakfast at 8:00AM departing 9:00AM and head home via the Hume highway with a packed lunch.
RECENT TRIPS
Thursday June 24th Wallaby Rise Bus trip to Wallaby Rise (Heyfield) for “Christmas in June”
ON THE WALLABY
Thursday June 24th was cold and foggy in Warragul but more than fifty Probians and friends hopped out of their warm beds early to go "On the Wallaby". We travelled through the fog to Rosedale where we had a short break in the sunshine, then hopped back on the coach and left the fog behind for the trip to Maffra, where we went to the Gippsland Vehicle Collection Motor Museum which is housed in an old 2,200 square metre building (which was formerly a vegetable de-hydrating factory built during World War 2). We were given a hot cuppa and biscuits. Then followed an inspection of the extensive collection of vehicles: cars, trucks and motorcycles. The collection changes a few times over the year to keep visitors interested in repeat visits. We saw some very interesting restored vehicles: Packard, Rolls Royce, Ford, Cadillac, Jaguar and there was a section for Mini Minors. An old fire truck was great to see; quite smaller than the current fire trucks! One Motorbike had a gorgeous cushioned wicker chair sidecar; it looked very comfortable. There were "topless cars" and also the oldest working horseless carriage in Australia.
We left Maffra about 11.30am for the trip to "Wallaby Rise" which is situated opposite Lake Glenmaggie, which had quite a bit of water in it; on our last visit it had been very dry. A warm welcome awaited us at the restaurant, jokes, poems and a wonderful raging open fire which warmed us through very quickly. For a start we had pumpkin and sweet potato soup served with damper, followed by bush poems. Then followed the main course consisting of pork, lamb, beef and turkey, spiced potatoes, and about six other vegetables, gravy and sauces. Then there were more poems and stories to make us laugh; then we were treated to plum pudding, golden syrup pudding and apple crumble and tea and coffee.
Eventually it was time to leave and we were given fruit damper to take with us, it was now a matter of struggling on to the coach (no more hopping). The trip home was quiet, I think quite a few people slept after a very enjoyable, interesting day out.
Many thanks to Graham and his team for organising a really great day! ~Jean Saltmarsh.
Wednesday April 28th Powerworks and Gippsland Power Football Club, It was great to go in a comfortable Warragul Bus Lines bus, dealing locally is also a great idea. We went to the Latrobe Valley for a Powerworks Tour of the Loy Yang Open Cut sadly their were too many of us to get a look in at a power station. Morwell Bowling Club for a wonderful lunch, then we went to inspect Gippsland Power Football Club's new facilities. Even though I am not at all interested in football, I thought that they are the best that I have seen. Peter Francis gave us a talk about their plans for the boys that they are training at Gippsland Power. I was very impressed with what I heard.
On Wednesday 24th of February. 45 of us went on a mystery trip. We met at the Burke Street park and boarded a Hazelwood coach. Firstly we stopped at the Shrine of Remembrance for morning tea. We then continued on for a very interesting tour of Etihad Stadium, where we had a delicious lunch. After that we went to look over the Police Museum. On the way home we went to the Berwick Inn for afternoon tea.
Morning Tea at the Shrine. Sitting on the edge of the Etihad Oval.
On October the 30th, we met at Burke Street Park to go to the Eltham Nicholas Gardens, and the the Sky High Restaurant, sadly it rained and could not visit the William Rickett Sanctuary.
On August the 27th We went in we visited. Heronswood Gardens in Dromana for a tour followed by lunch at the Pig & Whistle Hotel () at Main Ridge near Dromana. On way home we visited the Tyabb Packing Shed (browsing the antiques and collectables) .
Above Picture is of some of the group enjoying lunch at the Pig & Whistle Hotel.
On June 25th, 45 of us travelled to Melbourne's South Bank in a Coach. We then had a ferry ride to Williamstown. For a Pizza Lunch at Sam's Boatshed Restaurant. A tour of Williamstown then followed on the coach with a guide from the Williamstown Museum. Graham was our leader and looked after us well, everyone appeared to enjoy themselves, except many looked as though they wanted some more of the lovely Pizza.
Our Ferry Boat on the Yarra.
View of Westgate Bridge from the back of the Ferry.
Seated ready for our Pizza.
View from outside Sam's Boatshed.
Smoko time.
A cold wind was blowing.
View of one of Williamstown's historic streets.
Our Guide from the Williamstown Museum.
Standing around the fountain at the historic Cemetery.
Standing around the fountain at the historic Cemetery.
Preparing to board the coach to go and get an Ice-cream.
Some of the excellent selection of Ice Creams.
Pictures above are from the Williamstown trip.