Touring Monbulk
The district Monbulk of in Victoria with it's 2,715 residents Monbulk is a subburb located in Australia about 274 mi south-west of Canberra, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 13°C / 55 °F
Morning Temperature | 9°C / 49 °F |
Evening Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
Night Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 3% |
Air Humidity | 82% |
Air Pressure | 1025 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from North-East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 87% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Friday, 26th of April 2024
15°C (58 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, broken clouds.
Saturday, 27th of April 2024
17°C (63 °F)
8°C (47 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Sunday, 28th of April 2024
20°C (68 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Aquila Nova Retreat
Candlelight Cottage
Mountain Element Retreats
Arnica Views
Moulton Park Cottages
Gracehill
Holly Lodge
The Loft In The Mill Boutique Accommodation
Lochiel Luxury Accommodation
Credo Cottages
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Puffing Billy crossing Monbulk Creek Trestle Bridge, Aerial View
A Shot of Puffing Billy the Steam train crossing the old Monbulk Creek Trestle bridge. Shot with the DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ http://www.puffingbilly.com.au/about-puffing-billy/the-journey/
Melbourne Dandenongs - Birds - Puffing Billy part 1
Whatever time of the Year , the colourful birds on Grants Picnic Ground are always waiting to be grain fed . If you still have the time , take a trainride on Puffing-Billy from Belgrave .
Grants Picnic Ground
Crimson Rosellas(Very colorful),Sulpher-Crested Cockatoos(large and vocal),Galahs(quiet and timid)
Ion Air Pro - Olinda to Sassafras descent
Descent from Olinda to Sassafras filmed using Ion Air Pro HD action sports camera. Vibration is from road bike running on 140psi tyre pressure and the occassional rough patch in the road....
Olinda Primary School ANZAC Ampitheatre
In honour of those of the Olinda Township who fought and died in the First World War 1914 - 1918. Erected in 2015 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli.
Excursion to the Dandenongs
Backpacker couple rents a car and enjoys a day trip up to the Dandenong Ranges approx 45 min East of Melbourne.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge 30 gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Australia. The primary starting point, operations and administration centre, main refreshment room (also selling souvenirs) and ticket purchasing are located at Belgrave station. Journeys may also be commenced at out-stations of which some have limited facilities for the purchase of tickets, refreshments and souvenirs.
Emerald, Victoria
Emerald is a town and semi-rural locality in the Greater Melbourne area, Victoria, Australia, 44 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district, outside the urban area. Its local government areas are the Shires of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges. At the 2011 Census, Emerald had a population of 5,813. Emerald also includes Cardinia Reservoir, Melbourne's second largest reservoir.
Belgrave, Victoria
Belgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 35 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Belgrave had a population of 4094. Belgrave is only 16 years younger than Melbourne CBD.
Olinda, Victoria
Olinda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Olinda had a population of 1568.
Kallista, Victoria
Kallista is a locality within Greater Melbourne beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Kallista had a population of 1032.
Menzies Creek, Victoria
Menzies Creek is a township in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 42 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2011 Census, Menzies Creek had a population of 911. Menzies' Creek Post Office opened on 2 May 1887 and closed in 1980. Menzies Creek railway station opened on 18 December 1900 with the opening of the Gembrook line.
Monbulk, Victoria
Monbulk is a suburb of Melbourne located 42 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Monbulk had a population of 2715.
Selby, Victoria
Selby is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Selby had a population of 1396. The town hosts the second station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook.
Sassafras, Victoria
Sassafras is a locality and township within Greater Melbourne beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 43 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Sassafras had a population of 968. It is located at an altitude of approximately 500 metres, near the top of the ridgeline of the Dandenong Ranges, a few kilometres south of the highest peak of Mount Dandenong.
Sherbrooke, Victoria
Sherbrooke is a settlement in Victoria, Australia, 35 km east of Melbourne. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 census, Sherbrooke had a population of 196. Permanent European settlement began with the building by a retired sea-captain, Robert W. Graham, of a log hut,, hand-cut from the forest, using horizontal-slab wall construction, an adobe floor, weatherboards and a sapling/shingle roof.
Tecoma, Victoria
Tecoma is a town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Tecoma had a population of 2,189. The town is named after the shrub that grew in the area when the need was identified for a railway station for the timber mill that occupied the site where Tecoma Primary School now stands. The Post Office opened on 7 January 1929, closing in 1976.
The Patch, Victoria
The Patch is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 39 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, The Patch had a population of 793.
Belgrave railway station
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Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station
Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station is situated in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway. It is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne's broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network.
Selby railway station, Melbourne
Selby Station was opened in May 1904, and named after the local landowner and Shire President W. Selby. The station consists of a short platform and corrugated iron waiting shelter. Trains do not normally stop here, but will stop if required.
Menzies Creek railway station
Menzies Creek Station was opened with the line on 18 December 1900. It was named after an early settler Mr. John Menzies. On 5 December 1904 it was renamed Aura, after the estate of the Shire President. The station reverted to its previous name on 4 July 1947. Throughout this period, the Post Office kept the name of the town as Menzies Creek which it remains to this day. When the station was operating under the V.R. it had a loop siding, a standard portable station building, and a goods shed.
Clematis railway station
Clematis Station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway. It was opened on the 10th March 1902 as Paradise Valley. The name was shortened to Paradise in 1908 and renamed Clematis in 1921. Trains rarely stop here, except by prior arrangement, often for groups travelling to the Paradise Hotel (behind the station). Clematis contains a small loop siding with a dead end spur, which are Staff operated.
Spring Vale Cemetery railway station
Spring Vale Cemetery station was a railway station in Melbourne, Australia, serving the Springvale Cemetery. It had its own branch line, which split from the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines at Springvale station. It was opened on 7 February 1904, to transport coffins, passengers and staff to the cemetery, and closed during 1952, at a time when many small branch lines were being closed by Victorian Railways.
Ashendene Boys Home
Ashendene Boys Home was a former home for boys admitted to care of the Victorian Government in Australia. The centre operated between 1966 and 1988 and was initially managed by the Social Welfare Branch, later the Social Welfare Department, the Department of Community Welfare Services, and Community Services Victoria. Located in Olinda, Victoria, the centre accommodated boys aged from 10 to 15 years following a breakdown in home release, foster care or a children's home placement.
Burnham Beeches (Australia)
Burnham Beeches is a 1930s streamline-moderne mansion built for Aspro-brand sales magnate Alfred Nicholas on Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges, 40 kilometres from Melbourne, Australia.
Silvan Reservoir
Silvan Reservoir Silvan ReservoirSilvan Reservoir from KaloramaLocation Silvan, VictoriaConstruction began 1926Opening date 7 July, 1931Dam and spillwaysHeight 43 metresLength 644 metresBase width 219 metresReservoirCreates Silvan ReservoirCapacity 40,000 megalitresCatchment area 9 km² (off stream storage)Surface area 3.33 km² The Silvan Reservoir is located in Silvan about 40 km East of Melbourne, Victoria.
Mater Christi College
Mater Christi is a Catholic girls' secondary college located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. The school was founded by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan religious order in 1963 outside Belgrave, overlooking the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. A rapidly growing population in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne saw Mater Christi College grow, and today there are more than 1000 girls enrolled at the college, including students from several Asia-Pacific countries.
Sherbrooke Forest
Sherbrooke Forest lies at an altitude of 300 m within the Dandenong Ranges, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, close to the suburb of Belgrave. The vegetation is classified as wet sclerophyll forest with the dominant tree species the Mountain Ash, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest flowering plant in the world. From the mid 19th century until 1930 it was logged.
Clematis, Victoria
Clematis is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 42 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2011 Census, Clematis had a population of 366. The town consists of a fire station, a pub, a railway station, a small hall and two shops.
National Rhododendron Gardens
The National Rhododendron Gardens are situated in the township of Olinda, Victoria, Australia, less than 5 minutes from the centre of town. In 1960, members of the then Ferny Creek Horticultural Society, started another group known as the Australian Rhododendron Society. This new group got permission from the Forest Commission to establish a rhododendron garden on a 20 ha site, in 1975 a further 20 ha was given.