This part of Victoria is stunning and is on route to Lake Mountain ski resort - I have to say I found it very strange to see ski hire companies in the Australian bush.
Marysville is about two hours from Melbourne and although now in the process of being rebuilt, 90% of it burnt down and 42 people were tragically killed in the Black Saturday bush fires of 2009.
I had never appreciated the bushfires until I moved to Melbourne and was surprised that this summer there were even evenings that we could smell the smoke from fires outside of the city.
From Marysville we took a track up into the hill sides up to Stevenson falls. We saw plenty of tiny lizards, the odd cockatoo, and fortunately no snakes.
The falls are one of the highest in Victoria and made a perfect picnic spot.
We finished our day with bottles of ginger beer before heading back over the Yarra Ranges and home for supper. We drove back along the amazing Black Spur Drive with the tallest Mountain Ash trees in Victoria.
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