The William Ricketts Sanctuary is like The Land that Time Forgot. Secreted away among ferny glades stand mysterious clay sculptures of people and animals. Created by William Ricketts, who was still producing the sculptures up until he died in 1993, these effigies reflect his profound interest in Aboriginal spirituality. Open daily from 10am - 4.30pm and free to enter, the sanctuary is a unique and peaceful space full of twists and turns and surprises around every corner.
Billy Connolly’s visited William Ricketts Sanctuary, a place he calls ‘the most impressive thing he’s seen in Australia
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Thank you Remo for organising a lovely ride today, even the weather was kind to us and thanks for every one there to make it fun and relaxing day, was also nice to catch up with the rest of the gang this morning at the breakfast, lovely to meet Gemma, Kylie and Dom, thanks to Bruce for the lovely welcome to his cafe worth to go back, and nice to catch up with you Mike
Thanks for organising a great day out Remo. What an amazing part of the world. Thanks Bruce for your hospitality, it was fantastic! You have a great little cafe there. I really enjoyed The William Ricketts Sanctuary and the ride there were first rate too. As for the breakfast, 15 bikes and 2 new faces. Welcome Gemma and Kylie, we hope to see you again soon.
Cheers
Rob.
A wonderful day today was so good to see everybody this morning at the Convent Bakery plenty of chit chat and coffee probably to much coffee for me, embarrassingly I had to have camomile tea at the end of the day resalting in the waiter calling me love LOL. Then the day spilt out to the trip to William Ricketts Sanctuary, we arrived at Harry’s Couch & Photographic Café, Harry of coarse was reluctant to get of the couch, we were warmly greeted by Bruce (the owner of the café) he made us all feel at home, a very tasty lunch was consumed and then we had a stroll to the William Ricketts Sanctuary absolutely amassing really worth a look, I am hoping to revisit for sure and as for the café yea I would like to try out more of the menu (very tasty and imaginative steak sandwich) very friendly people they will do well. Thank you for all that were able to make it you were the icing on the cake.
Hi Mike I would say we will be leaving at 11am so maybe it will give others a chance to come along that have commitments early in the morning but may be able to make the 11am time, it only takes less than an hour to get their from the Convent. So make your plans around that Mike
Looks great Remo, looking forward to this one!
Thanks Phil, I know what its like I work every second weekend, shame I miss out on a lot of good rides. but thats life for now.
Sounds like a great fun day out coming up, well done Remo.
Driving directions to William Ricketts Sanctuary
Drive 41.7 km, 55 mins
Convent Bakery
1 St Heliers Street
Abbotsford VIC 3067
1. Head west on St Heliers St towards Clarke St
2. Turn right onto Clarke St
3. Turn right onto Johnston St/State Route 34
Continue to follow State Route 34
4. Turn right onto Denmark St/State Route 21
5. Turn left onto Barkers Rd/State Route 32
6. Turn right onto Burke Rd/State Route 17/State Route 32
7. Turn left onto Canterbury Rd/State Route 32 (signs for Canterbury Road/Surrey Hills)
Continue to follow State Route 32
8. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto C415
William Ricketts Sanctuary
Mount Dandenong Victoria 3767
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