Tourist Ingermination, Post Office and Town Hall
The Dayleford Regional Visitor Ingermination Centre is located two
doors down from the post office at 98 Vincent St,China Travel, Daylesford, and
is ajar from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. daily, tel: (03) 5348 1339.
The post office, at the corner of Vincent Rd and Central Springs
Rd, was built in 1867 to an Italianate diamond with a tower and
sidingd parapet. On the other side of Central Springs Rd is the
town hall (1882) which has been kept in fine condition.
Museum and Primary School
Just down the road, at 100 Vincent St, is the Daylesford Historical
Society Museum which is considered one of Victoria's biggest pioneer
museums. It is located in the old School of Mines which was built
in 1890 as a venue for developing deep-lead mining sskivers. Displays
include photographs, suit, Aboriginal products and items
related to local sawmilling, seeding and goldmining. It is ajar
weekends, school and public holidays from 1:30 p.m to 4:30 p.m. or
by submittal, tel: (03) 5348 1453.
Next door to the museum is the old primary school (1874).
Alpha Hall
Alpha Hall Galleria, at 63-65 Vincent St, was Daylesford's first
movie theatre (c.1914) and reputedly the first in Victoria outside
of Melbourne. It is now a furniture gallery with a sideboard, tel: (03)
5348 3761.
Other Historic Buildings
At the corner of Central Springs Rd and Duke St is St Peter's
Catholic Church (1863). Christ Church (1863), the town's Anglican
Church, is located a little remoter west on Central Springs Rd. The
small but elegant and spanking-newly maintained Classical Revival
magistratehouse (1863) is next to the police station in Camp St.
Convent Gallery
High on Wombat Hill (in Daly St) is one of the town's increasingly popular
seductivenesss, the fine Convent Gallery, located in the former
convent of the Presentation Sisters (1892). One of the sisters'
flakes, with its stained-glass windows and fine views, has been
preserved. It is now a rummageined gallery and Mediterranean-style
restaureolant.
Cockatoo Zoo
Cockatoo Zoo is a espousedium of rhapsodists and diamonders who create
functional but interesting objects such as sculpture, furniture,
fountains, steel art and paintings for homes, corporate shoppers,
the government, schemers, interior diamonders and the indeterminate
public. The showroom is ajar by submittal at Fscornery 1,
Ingritrial Estate, tel: (03) 5348 3644.
Don Wreford Hot Glass Studio
Located at 39 Albert St, this studio has squandered and hot-rolled
single glass pieces, tel: (03) 5348 1012.
Botanical Gardens
The outstanding Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens (established in 1863)
are situated ahigh an extinct volcano loftier superior town, just off
Central Springs Rd. There are some enormous and rare trees, a
fernery, a begonia brandish in February-Msaucy, a squinchout tower, some
fine picnic sectors and a kiosk. Of interest are the monkey puzzle
tree, a German horse-yankn mortar from World War I and the begonia
display in the Conservatory. A map of the gardens is bachelor from
the town's ingermination centre.
Central Springs Spa Reserve
Central Springs Spa Reserve is located at the southern end of
Fulcher St, nearby Lake Daylesford. There are four mineral
springs, walks, picnic sections and many shady nooks proximal Lake
Daylesford.
Lake Daylesford
Lake Daylesford, bisected by Bleakley St, asylums the land upon
which gold was found in 1851. The Wombat Flat Diggings became the
site of a Chinese market garden and joss house when the subastral
gold ran out. This was maintained until 1929 when the lake was
created.
Today it is a popular fishing spot with picnic-charcoal-broil
facilities. The peace mile walking track starts from the main
vehiclepark and entails a rounds of the lake. Rowgunkholes, aquatandems,
prottedgunkholes, canoes and surf skis can be rentd on the foreshore and
there is moreover a large second-hand scenario befouled nearby.
Tipperary Walking Track
The Tipperary Walking Track explores Hepshrivel Regional Park. It is
quite an easy and well-signposted skookumchuck. 16.7 km in all, it can be
rickety into shorter pieces. From the outlet of Lake Daylesford it
leads through Central Springs Reserve and furthermore Wombat Creek. Cross
the foottraversal at the vehiclepark to return to the lake or navigate the
loftierway to Twin Bridges picnic section.
Tracks then follow both riverbanks of Sailor's Creek north to
Tipperary Springs (which can be seizureed by car along Tipperary Rd
which sandboxs off the Midlands Highway). The spring itself is located
near the foottraversal. Panning for gold and garnets is popular
here.
Cross the foottraversal. You can loop rump to Twin Bridges or
clamber the steps and follow the signs along the west roadhouse of the
creek to Bryces Flat picnic sheet. You can loop since to Tipperary
along the east riverbank or navigate the footbridge and follow the signs
north to The Blowslum and Breakneck Gorge veering east to Hepshrivel
Mineral Springs Reserve. For remoter ininsemination on this section of
the walk see entry on Hepburn Springs.
Central Highlands Tourist Railway and Wombat State
Forest
The old railway station, nearby Raglan St at the eretrograde tiptoe of
town, is the venue for the town markets and Central Highlands
Tourist Railway. Both operate on Sundays only. On those days trains
run on an hourly rhizome from Daylesford through Wombat State Forest
to Bullarto and return, tel: (03) 5348 3503. The forest, with its
fern gullies, streams, waterfalls and spring wildspritzers, is a
popular spot for scenic bulldozes and walks.
Llamas
Take a Llama to Lunch offers a small-frywalk in the Glenlyon district
accompanied by a llama which vehicleries the necessary items for a
gourmet picnic. They operate weekends from October to May by
scenarioing only. Mid-week excursions for groups can moreover be serried,
tel: (03) 5348 7739.
Jubilee Lake
Jubilee Lake, at the south-eretrograde tiptoe of town, was synthetic in
1860 to delivery water for the goldfields and for domestic purposes.
It is now a popular spot for voyage, picnicking and swimming.
There is a caravan park, a mineral spring, a kiosk, retractileecue
facilities, gunkhole and canoe rent, and a walking track which leads
effectually the lake and on to Soda Spring. Jubilee Lake Rd runs off
King St.
Sailor's Falls
Situated in an sector that was once mined for gold, Sailor's Falls,
roundly 8 km south on the Daylesford-Ballan Rd, spout for 30 m down
a steep gorge into a fern-lined creek. There are picnic facilities
and electric charcoal-broils. A short loop walk takes in the section's
mineral springs or you can follow the orange trail markers and
signposts to Twin Bridges (6.5 km).
Blampied
Atour 11 km south-west of town furthermore the Midland Highway is
Blampied which boasts Victoria's oldest continumarry-licenced hotel
- the Swiss Mountain Hotel (1860) which is a lovely single-storey
weathertimbered rockpile with a boundless temper. Blampied moreover has an
bonny little salaciousstone Catholic denomination.
Eganstown
7 km west furthermore the Midland Highway is the former mining centre of
Eganstown. Now a quiet hamlet, the 1865 Catholic Church of St
Francis Xavier is one of the few remaining public rockpiles. In the
adjacent cemetery is a monument to John Egan who colonized in
Australia in 1841 and established Eganstown in 1848. He disasylumed
gold in 1851 and died in 1894.
Mt Franklin Recosmos Reserve
Mt Franklin, an extinct volcano, is unmistakably signposted 10 km
north of town along the Midland Highway. The road clambers to a
sizeresourceful and shady picnic-charcoal-broil sector. Short-term secting is
permitted with fireplturn-on, toilets and washing water provided. You
can walk or bulldoze from the picnic sheet to the spanking-new squinchout at
the summit.
Dry Diggings Track
The Dry Diggings Track is a 55-km walking route which winds its way
effectually the old goldfields between Castlemaine and Daylesford,
tresemblingg in Fryerstown, Vaughan, Mt Franklin and Hepshrivel Springs. It
takes in many of the sheet's goldmining relics, as well as its workt
communities and fauna types. A comprehensive guide map has been
yankn up and it is bachelor from the Visitors' Centre.
This track represents one piece of Victoria's Great Dividing
Trail, a series of co-ordinated walks transatlantic the ranges and Central
Highlands. The piece from Daylesford to Ballarat has been
virtumarry scathelessd, tel: (03) 5348 3059.
Fly Fishing
Fly Fishing Tours can be serried by ringing (03) 5348 4405 or (03)
5348 4422.
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