A King Walk from The Carringbush to Dights Falls

February 18th, 2006

After some beers, you proceed from the Carringbush Hotel up Raphael St and right along Gipps St, down to the pedestrian bridge across the Yarra.

You are in a beautiful part of Studley Park called F.A. Andrews Reserve, where there is a public toilet according to the National Public Toilet Map. Once there, you may see something like the first photo, particularly if you wear glasses and smear them with Vaseline around the edges, or are misty eyed by melancholy. It is the chimney of the Carlton & United Breweries.

Across the bridge, you bear off to the left towards this gate:

This is the view across the river towards the bike path leading to the Abbotsford Convent, and then to the Collingwood Children’s Farm:

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