You can see Chautauqua Peak from the main street of Halls Gap. That ridge line sitting above the rooftops — that’s where you’re headed. The loop is 5.5 kilometres. It starts from the tennis courts at the southern end of town, which means you can walk straight from the Nook without touching the car. Go […]

Some proposals happen in restaurants. Others happen at considerable altitude, or in the middle of a national park with nobody else around for an hour in either direction. The Nook is the second kind of place. The Outdoor Bath at Night Fill the bath after dark, open the wine, and let the sky do the […]

Pomonal General Store is the kind of shop you can’t quite explain until you’ve been inside it. Coffee, local produce, something for a picnic, something for breakfast — yes, all of that. But mostly it’s Nadya, who runs it like it belongs to the village rather than to her, because she thinks it does. Nadya’s […]

Pomonal is the kind of place people drive through on the way to somewhere else and spend the next few years planning how to get back to. A handful of businesses, a general store, some extraordinary views, and ten minutes from the Nook. Worth doing properly. Lake Fyans An easy loop with water views and […]