





I love family holidays for many different reasons, and once you get passed the exhausting packing and unpacking, the bugs, the horrible toilets and showers, the kids disappearing and the poor quality food, you can really sink yourself into a concentrated family moment unhindered by the telephone, TV, DVD and computer.
This was our second visit to the Grampians we went to the same place last year and had such a great time, and a real bush experience, that we just had to go back for more. http://www.emuholidaypark.com.au/
Grampians National Park (Gariwerd)
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/national/sites/grampians.html
Aboriginal people have lived in Gariwerd for thousands of years and it is one of the richest Indigenous rock art sites in south-eastern Australia. The language groups, Djapwurrong and Jardwadjali are the languages used by the custodians for the Grampians/Gariwerd region.
European settlers arrived following favourable reports of potential grazing land by Major Thomas Mitchell, who scaled the highest peak in the Grampians, Mt Duwil (Mt William), with a small group of explorers in 1836. Mitchell named the mountains the Grampians after the rugged region in his native Scotland.
The Grampians soon became a centre for farming, mining and timber production, and a source of water for surrounding farmland. The Grampians was designated as State Forest in 1872 and was declared a National Park in 1984
Emu Holiday Park is also a wildlife shelter. There are so many animals that Iggy and Quinn walked around the park and would casually say ‘Hi Peg’ to an Eastern grey wallaby and ‘Hi Jack’, moments later to a nine month old swamp wallaby.
We went yabbying, and with the smallish yabbies we found, we fed the kookaburras.
This year we went for a walk along the Lakeview loop, which is one of the Sundial walks – just recently opened post major bush fire from a few years ago. We mucked around so much that by the time we were near the lake we had to turn back to make sure we had enough daylight.
After all our wanderings and Easter egg hunts and other fun things we went home via the Giant Koala - yep it's our first Australian 'Big Thing' on this blog; watch out for more...
http://www.bigthings.com.au/
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