Gulf Station in Yarra Glen is one of the most original timber farms left in Australia. The complex which was built in the 1850s is home to an historic homestead and original buildings like the barn, schoolhouse, butcher shop and dairy. Join Tania, from Do The Yarra Valley for a quick video tour.
It’s pretty hard to beat a sunny Autumn afternoon spent strolling through a historic homestead, watching blacksmiths at work, men chopping wood, children blowing bubbles and enjoying a hot cuppa accompanied by a fluffy scone topped with local strawberry jam and fresh cream. If that sounds good to you then brace yourselves for some bad news. Gulf Station is currently closed for renovations. The good news is, it’s re-opening later this year and will be much improved with the homestead being reinterpreted and Yarra Glen’s original school house being restored.
For more information on Gulf Station visit their website.
Adolescence is often filled with tales of woe. I can remember sitting in the Hoyts Midcity Cinema in the early 1980′s with tears welling up in my eyes as Sigrid Thornton played, or pretended to play, Jessica’s theme in The Man From Snowy River. Weeping in a movie was highly unusual for a boy in his late teens, especially when it was just a person playing a piano that caused such an emotional response. The humiliation of a row of high school students jeering, ‘look at him! He’s crying’, stays with you for some time.
The music Bruce composed (in only three weeks!) for The Man From Snowy River is so timeless in its appeal and has become so strongly etched in our musical psyche that there is a tendency to forget that this is now a thirty year old work and was, in fact Bruce’s first score for a feature film. Ask Bruce what he’s most proud of and he’ll tell you, “it’s not the Man From Snowy River, it’s my most recent work.”
