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backyard, the Fitzroy Gardens. The stately avenues lined with English elms, flowerbeds,
expansive lawns, strange fountains and a creek are a short stroll from town.
www.cookscottage.com.au
;
adult/child/family $5/2.50/13.50; 9am-5pm)
, shipped brick by brick from
Yorkshire and reconstructed in 1934 (the cottage actually belonged to the navigator's par-
ents). It's decorated in mid-18th-century style, with an exhibition about Captain James
Cook's eventful, if controversial, voyages to the Southern Ocean.
Nearby is writer Ola Cohn's kooky carved
Fairies Tree
, a 300-year-old stump embellished
in 1932 with fairies, pixies, kangaroos, emus and possums. Between Cooks' Cottage and
the Fairies Tree is the
Scarred Tree
: now a large stump, it was once stripped of a piece of its
bark to make a canoe by Aboriginal people. In the centre of the gardens is a 'model'
Tudor
village
. This well-meaning gift was a way of saying thanks for sending food to Britain dur-
ing WWII.
Spanish-mission architectural style and features a range of different floral displays each
year. A new visitor centre and cafe was being constructed here at the time of research.
Johnston Collection
MUSEUM
( 03-9416 2515;
www.johnstoncollection.org
;
East Melbourne; adult/concession $25/23; 48, 75)
Not only
will you see the exquisite collection of sharp-eyed antique dealer William Johnston in his
majestic East Melbourne mansion, but you'll hear his intriguing backstory. It's popular
with repeat visitors as the furniture and items are changed every three months - different
curators, usually an artist or designer, thematically rearrange the house from Johnston's
collection. Tours depart from Hilton on the Park, leaving three times daily. Booking is re-
quired.
Charles Nodrum Gallery
GALLERY
( 03-9427 0140;
www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au
;
267 Church St, Richmond; 11am-6pm Tue-Sat; 48,
75. 78)
Quality gallery established in 1984, which specialises in Australian abstract and al-
ternative art movements from the 1950s through the 1970s.
