About A Day Outdoors Touring and that ‘tree’ photo
A Day Outdoors Touring was conceived, founded and is operated by Garth Foxwell. Established in 1999, A Day Outdoors is one of ‘less-than-a-handful’ of Melbourne-based private tour businesses remaining in the day-to-day control of its founder.
Always, the quest is to create and conduct personalised and private touring programs for you. Programs that are engaging, informative, fun and offer authentic experiences. I know many of my guests visit with the desire to see those dreamed of 'Aussie' places. But also to enjoy the experiences that go with this. We strive to match the dream and more. To achieve this, the aim is to be truly attentive and responsive to you - our guest. Private touring supports this and often suits a variety of situations. Perhaps you are one or more couples travelling together and simply want to enjoy your own time together. You want to 'free-wheel'. Do things of interest to you. Perhaps you are touring as a family. You want a day to suit you - something for the adults, equally, attractions and interests to suit the….‘younger folk’. Mostly, it’s your chance to spend some special travel time and experiences together. Largely, the tour program can be conducted to your preferred schedule too. This site’s ‘Tours’ page takes you to more information about the programs regularly conducted and other ideas that might be of interest.
About that ‘Tree’ photo (far left). In a way the ‘Home’ page photo is like a ‘visual metaphor’ for A Day Outdoors Touring.
To begin, the photo, and each one presented in this website, have been taken by me - Garth (the other photo). I have an intense dislike for Tourism ‘promotional’ photos taken from viewpoints you are unable or not allowed to visit! You won’t find that here. Ultimately, the ‘tree’ photo led to a small ‘photo essay’ during ‘C19’ times and presented in A Day Outdoors Touring’s Instagram account with the reference #aroundtheoffice.
Next, the ‘Tree’ photo is taken from a ‘backroad’ in the broader Yarra Valley region. ‘Backroads’ can be great. They often take you away from the crowds. I like to tour ‘backroads’ (when appropriate). They likely take you somewhere unique, closer to your interest and enlarge your view of and connection with the locality.
‘But it is a dead tree’, you say. Yes it is, but in Australia, trees such as these are life-giving too. They provide important nesting opportunities for many of our rare and beautiful cockatoos and parrots, possums too and very much more. That’s what good touring is about - seeing, experiencing and learning.