Attractions

Fort Framework

By Keith Platt   Photos Yanni As with real estate, the success or failure of photography can depend on location. The right location can be inspiring, helping a photographer to put the…

From little things, big things grow

By Melissa Walsh   Photos Yanni Claude Monet said “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” and one cannot help think Clive and Penny Blazey must feel exactly the same, after spending…

On the record

By Melissa Walsh   Photos Yanni It’s 2017 and Craig Breedlove is still selling vinyl, just like he did when he worked in his first record shop 41 years ago. The Rosebud…

If the walls could talk

By Melissa Walsh   Photos Gary Sissons It’s been a long five years since the Pier Hotel closed its doors upstairs, with the grand old building going to wrack and ruin while…

Picture Perfect Purple

By Kristy Martin   Photos: Jarryd Bravo & Yanni Kristy Martin visits the Red Hill Lavender Farm and Distillery and discovers a boutique operation where time-honoured traditions reign supreme.     It…

Sand castles to build

By Melissa Walsh   Photos: Gary Sissons Sharon and Peter Redmond’s love of the beach was the catalyst for their move to Frankston when they first married over two decades ago. But…

Lantasia Dreaming

Pictures: Yanni After the success of last year's illuminating festival at Boneo Maze, the lantern festival reopened this summer with the theme ‘Lantasia Dreaming’. Mixing two traditions, the age old art of…

Shining a light on wildlife conservation

By Kristy Martin   Photos: Jarryd Bravo I never thought I’d be standing inside an animal enclosure at night listening to owls barking like dogs, Tasmanian devils squealing like pigs and an…

Barefoot Cinema comes to Portsea

By Melissa Walsh When Sorrento lad, Julian Grant and his girlfriend Yuliana first saw a barefoot cinema in London it planted a seed. The young lawyer, Julian, who had grown up on…

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