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Werribee Park

Posted by James Turnbull, Sunday, 27th November 2005

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The Victorian State Rose Garden at Werribee Park is made up of 5500 roses planted in the shape of a tudor rose.

Also to see at Werribee Park is the Chirnside Mansion, the National Equestrian Centre and the Victorian Open Range Zoo.

This tour bus is right in the middle of the Zoo so you could claim any one of those brown splodges nearby are a crossing of zebra, a corps of giraffes or a crash of rhinoceroses.

Thanks: woowoowoo

4 Responses to 'Werribee Park'

  1. Luke Sleeman says:

    Wow, what are the odds … I was just thinking I should submit werribee park as I was driving to work this morning. I live just down the road and will be getting married in the rose garden in 2 weeks time. You can see the rotunda in the center of the rose garden that we will be standing under!

    Just to the south west of the garden you can see many marques on the lawn. This would be the Werribee Park Spring Harvest Festival. The 2005 festival was just held yesterday.

    Unfortunately around melbourne Werribee is not known for its Rose Garden and mansion, but for its Placemark: >sewage farm / Google Earth which processes much of melbournes sewage :-(

  2. woowoowoo says:

    Luke: good get on the sewerage farm! Placemark: The aerators / Google Earth are working overtime!

    My first wedding was at Werribee Park over 25 years ago, hope yours lasts a little better than that one :-)

    I wasn’t so sure about the Marquees being the Harvest Festival, given that the carparks aren’t full to bursting like I thought they would be for that event – but then, it’s been many years since I went to one, so maybe they’ve calmed down a bit.

    There are so many good sights in that area, including the only aeroplane in flight I’ve been able to find in Australia – Placemark: a tiny light plane just off the coast / Google Earth from the Point Cook RAAF Base.

  3. Peter says:

    i have seen a plane taking off in queensland…
    (here it is: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  4. Luke Sleeman says:

    Hehehehe, no mention of werribee would be complete without the sewage farm.

    As for the Spring Harvest Festival, I guess they could have been just setting up, or pulling eveything down on that day.

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