Dunkeld

Dunkeld is a small town about 300 km west of Melbourne. Dunkeld has become famous because it has an outstanding three-hat restaurant.

We set off on Saturday morning for the weekend in Dunkeld. (Table booked about six months ago. More on the dinner itself in my next post.) The drive takes about three hours.

We stayed at some cottages that are associated with the hotel, on Mount Sturgeon Homestead. That's Mount Sturgeon itself in the background.

In the afternoon, before dinner, Smuts and I had a two-hour walk along the river. In the photo below, you can see the cottages at the top of the hill. We saw hundreds of sheep (those grey blobs in the second photo, which we thought looked like blobs in an impressionist painting), four kangaroos a-hopping, three million flies, two parrots in a pear tree, and a wallaby.