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A single-storey red brick house with a corrugated iron roof, two tall chimneys and a front verandah, with garden plants in the foreground and a blue sky behind.

5 Oct 20263 min read

Lake Anderson, the Gold Mine That Became Chiltern's Lake

Nobody dug Lake Anderson as a lake. It is what was left when the ground over an old gold mine sank, and the town has made good use of it since.

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A yellow donkey orchid flower with dark purple-brown markings and mottled red-brown blotches on its lower petals, photographed close against a dark green background, with unopened buds visible on the same stem.

28 Sept 20264 min read

Orchid Season in Chiltern's Ironbark Forest

For a few weeks each spring the forest floor outside town does something the rest of the year gives no warning of, and most of it is orchids.

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A quiet country street with a long single storey red brick building under a timber post verandah, two brick chimneys along its roof, and older shopfronts further down past a stop sign.

7 Sept 20264 min read

Dow's Pharmacy, Chiltern: the shop left as it was

A pharmacy has stood on Conness Street since 1859. When Dow's shut its doors in 1969 the stock stayed on the shelves, and it is all still in there.

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A regent honeyeater perched on a thin branch, black head and back with pale scalloped markings down the breast, bright yellow edging on the wing and tail, and a small identification band on one leg.

31 Aug 20265 min read

Counting regent honeyeaters in the Chiltern ironbark

The forest at the edge of town looks like nothing much. It holds one of the rarest birds in the country, and twice a year people go out and count them.

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A row of nineteenth century shopfronts along a country main street, a newsagent with painted newspaper signs across its verandah, and drapers and emporium signage further down the row under a clear blue sky.

24 Aug 20265 min read

When Disney turned Chiltern into a town called Barambogie

In 1974 a Disney crew gravelled Chiltern's main street, took the signs down and filmed the town as a place called Barambogie. What changed, and what stayed.

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Bare grapevines trained along wire trellises in a dormant vineyard, rows running back to a distant tree line under a clear blue sky, with yellow wildflowers growing between the vines.

17 Aug 20266 min read

Budburst season in Rutherglen's old vineyards

Out toward Rutherglen the old vines are waking up. What budburst looks like, why it happens in a set order, and the frost that still has to be watched for.

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A red-brick colonial homestead with a corrugated iron hipped roof and two brick chimneys, seen through an overgrown cottage garden of roses and shrubs under a clear blue sky.

27 July 20265 min read

Henry Handel Richardson and the house by the lake

A novelist who wrote under a man's name spent eighteen months of her childhood in Chiltern. The house she lived in is still standing on Victoria Street.

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A male red-capped robin perched on a branch in the Chiltern bush, a small grey bird with a bright scarlet cap and breast, sharp against a soft winter-brown background.

29 June 20266 min read

Winter school holidays in Chiltern: small adventures for cold days

Sixteen days of winter holiday, a small town in the high country, and children who want something to do. A guide to the cold weeks in Chiltern with kids: birds to find, a museum to thaw out in, and a morning at the bakery.

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Main Street in Chiltern, Victoria. Low historic shopfronts on both sides of a wide country-town road, mature trees, a single car parked at an angle.

26 May 20266 min read

A slow weekend in Chiltern

Winter in the high country: short days, low warm light, and the kind of small town that asks to be walked slowly. A weekend guide to Chiltern for the months when the cafe windows fog and the streets quiet down by five.

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