Tram Challenge. Route #70 Docklands to Wattle Park

I went out at lunchtime today, intending to go into town to Daiso. I was heading for the Daiso on the corner of Bourke and Swanston so hopped on the #70 tram outside my place. It stops on the corner of Swanston and Flinders, which isn't much of a walk from Daiso.

The #70 tram goes to Wattle Park. I decided that I didn't have much planned for the afternoon and I might as well stay on the tram to the end of the route. I wasn't exactly sure where Wattle Park was, other than somewhere in the eastern suburbs. So an adventure, as well as a route to mark off on the Tram Route Challenge. It turns out it is beyond Hawthorn and Camberwell but not quite as far as Box Hill.

The route went through the city, out through the sports arenas, through Richmond and then through bits of the eastern suburbs that I was familiar with and other bits that I wasn't. The Jacaranda trees in the eastern suburbs were in flower and the deciduous trees were clothed in the gentle green of early summer. There is an interesting mix of shops, groceries and supermarkets in the Hawthorn and Camberwell areas, including one large Asian supermarket that I might well go back and investigate. Although - I might not. There are lots of Asian supermarkets around where I am without having to head out into the suburbs.

So what is there in Wattle Park? There is, in fact, an enormous park that might very well be worth making a trip out to explore

End of the route
@ Elgar Road

I didn't linger in Wattle Park. I was neither dressed nor equipped for a ramble through an urban woodland. There wasn't all that much to do at the actual terminus. And I still had a visit to Daiso to undertake. So I got back on the tram and made my way back to the city, where I got off at the corner of Swanston and Flinders and walked up to Daiso. My Daiso mission was also successful.

[I realise that I caught the tram outside my place rather than at the actual starting point of the route at The District, but I have quite often caught the tram from there to my place and even from there into the city. I did not feel the need to go round to The District and do it again. As far as I am concerned, Route 70 has been collected!]