It's not often that one can claim to enjoy an entire day trip with a tantrum-prone three-year-old & a buggy-loathing 14-month-old, who relishes the new-found freedom of being able to determine his own direction in life. However, the 'Enchanted Maze' proved to be the perfect destination for such an outing.
Sandwiched between the wine farms of Red Hill & Mornington Peninsula's scenic Authur's Seat, the Enchanted Maze is a hidden collection of ornamental gardens, mazes & sculptures, creatively combined to spark the imagination of toddler and adult alike.
We enjoyed several idyllic hours exploring the quirky hedgerow mazes (ideal for Jack, who simply bounced along the green corridors after his sister) & obstacle courses (aka brainteasers) for kids. There were hidden mazes, meditative monk tracks, faerie gardens (much to Anna's delight) and old farming equipment artistically welded together to provide hours of entertainment in the form of little tractors and inspiring outdoor sculpture. Our peanut butter sandwhiches were devoured beneath a beautiful gazebo uner the gaze of one ambitiously-trimmed Loch Ness monster.
Not surprisingly, the farm animal enclosure proved particularly popular with Anna & Jack. Jackson immediately made a beeline for the feathered variety (on all fours in the goose poo, shrieking with delight), while his sister threw her arms around the rear end of a stonking old sheep. As I tried in vain to pry them from this filth, some dung-clad goat nosed around my handbag. D' lightful! Needless to say, it was a teary farewell that the kids bid these animals.
Handbag-eating goats aside, it was a perfect day... I was even allowed a visit to a local artist's gallery (and discovered a cherry-picking farm on the way home for you, Mom!)
Nothing like a bit of mid-weeek escapism - highly recommended!
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