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Secret Places of the Upper Yarra Valley

By Luke Steenhuis

Historic Sites

This book is a collection of places within the Upper Yarra Valley (above Lilydale) significant to the understanding of our heritage. Aborigines, white explorers, pastoralists, goldminers and timber cutters have all left their mark. These are sites which, despite modern development and urbanisation, are still ableto give us an insight to an eventful past.

26 sites described include: Starvation Creek, LittleYankee Jim Mines, Hoddles Creek, Big Pats Creek, Mt Juliet, Coranderrk Aboriginal Cemetery, Glenewart, Fernshaw, Wombat Forest, Little Peninsula Tunnel, Mount Beenak, Basan Corner, The Airstrip, Big Peninsula Tunnel, Yarra Glen Trestles, Steels Creek, Everard Park, Old Blacks' Spur, Kurth Kiln, Woori Yallock Creek, Cambarville, Big Creek Road, Old Beenak, Lilydale - Warburton Railway, Walker's Hotel, Railway Tunnel.

155mm X 215mm 60pages. Out of Print

Beauty Spots

This book is a selection of beauty spots within the Upper Yarra Valley (above Lilydale) which once made the valley, Victoria's foremost tourist destination.

Many of the sites have since been neglected or closed to public access, leaving tourists to pass by, and travel on to distant places.

By associating episodes of our fascinating past with these sites, we learn that there is more than just natural beauty to be re-discovered.

30 sites described include: Ship Rock, Britannia Underground, Mount St Leonard, La La Falls, Little Joe, Warramate Hills, Mt Toole-be-wong, Donnellys Weir, Maroondah Reservoir, Upper Yarra Dam, Meyers Creek Falls, Mt Donna Buang, Yarra Falls, Britannia Falls, Little Yarra Overlook, Graceburn & Its Weir, Ben Cairn, Mt Riddell, Yarrabridge, Mallesons Glen, Spandoni's Reserve, Platts Falls, Cumberland, Furmston's Trees, Corcoran Lookout, Cement Creek, Badger Weir, Gairns Road, Tarrawarra Road, Armstrong Creek Valley.

155mm X 215mm 60pages. Out of Print