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3 Melbourne Waterfalls Perfect for Swimming When Summer Begins

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Girl sits with MacKenzie Falls in the Grampians National Park in background

Where to go for the best Melbourne Waterfalls With summer approaching, it's a perfect time to plan water-filled adventures to embrace (and escape) the heat. As any Melbournian will know, this city is notorious for four seasons in one day…

Moving To Melbourne

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In less than 10 days, I will be zipping up my suitcase and hopping on a one-way flight to Melbourne, Victoria. It might not sound like that big of a deal, but for me, it is. While the thought of strolling…

Actually Moving to Melbourne

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It’s one thing to say that you’re doing something drastic, like, “I’m moving to Melbourne.” But to actually do it, is another thing entirely. The 30th of January – “Moving Day” – finally came around, and to say I was…

Chasing Waterfalls in 2017 and Beyond: This Year in Review

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I suppose it’s time I looked back over the year that was 2017. It was only after various people started posting Instagram photos with the places they had been and the things they’d accomplished that I started to think about…

Trentham Falls, Coliban River, Melbourne – Victoria, Australia

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Image of Trentham Falls from a chasing waterfalls day trip in Victoria

It all started with a beer.A beer that turned into two, then red wine, then I think whiskey? Then back to cider for some reason (honestly, why?). Followed by Jäger, gin and tonic, and other various concoctions – I’ll leave…

Wombelano Falls, Kinglake West, Melbourne – Victoria, Australia

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A spontaneous trip. After exploring Mason’s Falls in Kinglake National Park, my friends Scott and Roya were happy to continue exploring. I hadn’t even heard of Wombelano Falls at this point. I was instructed by Scott to get up Google…

Turpins Falls, Langley, Melbourne – Victoria, Australia

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“So should we go?” I stirred my coffee clockwise, then placed the spoon back on the saucer and took a sip. My friend Scott sat across from me, waiting expectantly for my answer. It was already 2pm. I didn’t know…

Masons Falls, Kinglake National Park, Melbourne – Victoria, Australia

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It was a Friday afternoon. I had 0 plans for the weekend (I know, boring). Sitting at my desk at work, my eyes watering from staring at the computer screen, I waited for the clock to strike 5pm. My phone…

Olinda Falls, Dandenong Ranges National Park, Melbourne – Victoria, Australia

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It was a Saturday morning. My schedule? Assignments, assignments, and OH YEAH – more assignments. It was not in the plan to even leave the house. I peered longingly out of my bedroom window. It was sunny outside, a rare…

Waterfall Itinerary for A Day in Lorne, Victoria

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Waterfall Itinerary for a day in Lorne, Victoria

The most frustrating thing about Googling "hiking tracks" in a particular location is that nobody tells you exactly how it is. There's no "Waterfall Itinerary for A Day in Lorne." Sure, there's plenty of information on each track, their distance,…

Carisbrook Falls, Great Ocean Road, Skenes Creek – Victoria, Australia

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Carisbrook Falls visited during Chasing Waterfalls trip in Lorne

Though the viewing platform to Carisbrook Falls is a mere 500 meters from Great Ocean Road, once you're there, you feel like you're in a different realm. They appear, cascading down a rock face that seemingly comes out of nowhere…

Steavenson Falls, Marysville – Victoria, Australia

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Steavenson Falls in Marysville, taken on spontaneous chasing waterfalls visit

It was the first time I'd ever seen snow. Yes, ever. In my twenty-one years of living, I had never laid eyes on the cold, fluffy white stuff we call snow - let alone touched it, walked in it or…

Russell Falls, Mt Field National Park – Tasmania, Australia

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Image of Russell Falls taken on a chasing waterfalls trip in Tasmania

I was a little on the drunk side of sober. Perched on a bar stool at The Pickled Frog Backpackers with my laptop in front of me, editing photos of O’Grady Falls and Silver Falls which I had visited just that…

O’Grady Falls, Mt Wellington Park, Hobart – Tasmania, Australia

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It all started when I couldn’t find my suitcase.I was supposed to be boarding my flight to Tasmania the next morning at 8am, so when I got out of bed on Saturday morning the first thing I did was go…

Cora Lynn Cascades, Great Otway National Park, Lorne – Victoria, Australia

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I woke up groggily. A warm blanket was wrapped around me at Lorne Foreshore Caravan Park. I shifted my feet, my body stiff from a night’s sleep in an unfamiliar bed. A good sleep, though. Thankfully. My friend Morgan and…

Erskine Falls, Great Otway National Park, Lorne – Victoria, Australia

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Image of Erskine Falls during a chasing waterfalls trip to Lorne in Victoria Australia

How To Find Erskine Falls in Great Otway National Park, Lorne, VictoriaI don't know how it happened.To give you some context, I just looked at my bank account balance. Touch ID wouldn't let me into the Commbank app the first two…

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