Local town Healesville is scenically set on the Watts River, a tributary of the Yarra that flows through Melbourne. Its most famed attraction is the Healesville Sanctuary, a zoo specialising in native species and set in natural bushland home to wallabies, dingoes, wombats, kangaroos and over 200 species of bird. Guided tours and bird tours are available to visitors. Also from town, take a scenic trip on the Yarra Valley Railway running from Healesville to the Tarrawarra Estate, on Sundays and public holidays as well as Wednesdays in school holidays. Or set out from town on the five-kilometre journey to the viewsome Maroondah Reservoir Park where there are native trees, landscaped gardens and a walking trail to a lookout over the reservoir. For day trips, Yarra Valley wineries are reachable in 20 minutes at Lilydale, and Melbourne in an hour and five minutes via the M3 and the Maroondah highway.