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ABOUT DOOKIE
Destination Dookie
Dookie is unique destination featuring beautiful rolling hills, quintessential Australian farm settings and spectacular seasonally changing landscapes. Dookie also offers a surprising mix of outdoor leisure, culinary experiences and a vibrant arts community. Combine a visit to Rye at Tallis with some other Dookie experiences.
The township of Dookie is nestled between two great granite outcrops and is surrounded by generations of family-owned grazing and cropping properties. Famous for Victoria's oldest Agricultural College (est.1886), geologists, academics and farmers who know Dookie well, all marvel at the fabric of the deep, rich, red, Cambrian soil.
What to do on a day out in Dookie?
Experience the quintessential seasonal landscape for yourself; walking the Mulana nin iyoga trail up Mount Major, cycling the Dookie rail trail or enjoying the view over a glass of wine at Rye at Tallis.
In town, coffee and jelly cake at the Dookie Emporium, sampling the Dookie Burger at the General Store, a picnic in the CWA gardens and a cold drink at the Gladstone Hotel should also be on your must-taste list, then ensure you check out the Dookie Nomadic Art Silos in town and feast your eyes on Dookie’s Flowering gumtree in the main street.
Visit Rye at Tallis
A reimagined wine bar and events space located hillside on the Tallis property. Here you can experience a taste of Tallis Wine, overlooking the Dookie hills where it was born, alongside other local beverages and produce from across the valley.
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An ever-changing landscape.
Whatever time of year you visit, the Dookie landscape will put on a show. Broadacre farming, the seasons and nature combine, to produce a textured, colourful patchwork, blanketing the ancient volcanic dirt. When the long warm days of autumn are broken by rain, farmers sow their grain and the red ploughed paddocks turn a verdant green, as crops germinate and grow. On the bridge of winter and spring the canola uplifts with parcels of iridescent yellow splendour. A classic Australian pastoral scene awaits in summer with fields of golden wheat. The Dookie landscape and the Goulburn Valley’s big sky country captures the heart and truly inspires.
