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Affectionately known by many names, this hidden stretch of road, Dinosaur Drop , Resides at the top of Don Road, right before Mount Donna Buang. Many locals use this road as a back way into Warburton or Don Valley, unless closed and restricted during winter months by the Yarra Ranges Council, due to icy road conditions. As soon as rain turns into snow, the road becomes chained and bouldered, not even the highest four-wheel drives can climb up over the man-made wall of rocks a

A personal essay that began as poetry. When I was 10, my neighbours were selling lemons. There was a small make-shift stall, just trestle tables and a dream, a scribbled sign with lemons barely legible on a single paper sign. I could hardly wait to bounce on up the hill to get some. It was an Australian summer, droplets of sweat dripped down my pale chubby legs, my brown virgin hair would frizz in the humidity, and the steep incline up Currawong Road left me aching for my ven