Drouin (including Bunyip and Tynong North)
Important service centre in West Gippsland
Drouin is 97 km south-east of Melbourne via the Princes Highway. Its principal industries are dairying, grazing and timber, although potatoes and apples are grown and eggs are produced. Local factories produce lingerie, butter and cheese, steel pipes, plastic, and powdered milk.

The town developed after the arrival of the railway at the end of the 1870s. There is some dispute over the origins of the name. Some sources claim that it derives from a Frenchman who invented a chlorination process for extracting metals from ore. Others suggest that its source is an Aboriginal word meaning 'north wind'.

The famous Australian boxer, Lionel Rose, grew up in a humpy settlement called Jackson's Track, 5 km from the town. 10 km away, on the Tarago River, is a pleasant park called Glen Cromie. West along the Princes Highway are Longwarry, a farming area with a sawmill and milk products factory.

Things to see:  

Bunyip
Bunyip, a dairy town with apple and pear orchards and potatoes, shares its name with a nearby river. It had its origins in a sheep property established in 1851, named Buneep Buneep or Bunyip Bunyip, presumably after the famous Aboriginal swamp creature.

Garfield
A little further west is Garfield, an agricultural, dairying, fruit and potato town. Nearby Cannibal Creek Lookout has views across to Phillip Island, as well as walking tracks, a barbecue and some attractive flora.

Tynong North
Another 5 km along the highway is Tynong North which possesses the Gumbaya Recreation and Leisure Park, a bushland area which sports an aviary, an indoor plant nursery, a wildlife reserve with kangaroos, wallabies and emus , Aboriginal artefacts, a pheasant farm and bush walks. Nearby is Victoria's Farm Shed, with sheep shearing, milking and sheepdog demonstrations and a cattle and sheep parade.

	Motels
	Robin Hood Motel/Hotel Princes Hwy Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 4884 Rating: **
	Drouin Motor Inn 275 Princes Way Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 3296 Rating: ***
	Hotels
	Gleesons Family Hotel Princes Way Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 2066
	Bed & Breakfast/Guesthouses
	Parnassus Guesthouse Camp Hill Rd P.O. Box 299 Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5626 8522 Facsimile: (03) 5626 8502 Rating: ****
	Caravan Parks
	Drouin Caravan Park 284 Princes Way Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 2053 Rating: ***
	El Paso Caravan Park Princes Way Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 1710 Rating: ***
	Glen Cromie Caravan Park Main Neerim Rd Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5626 8212 Rating: ***
	Restaurants
	Drouin Chinese Restaurant Commercial Place Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 2626
	Drouin Motor Inn 275 Princes Way Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 3296
	Parnassus Guesthouse Camp Hill Rd P.O. Box 299 Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5626 8522
	The Old Drouin Butter Factory Restaurant Main Rd Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 4244
	Cafés
	Food Stop Take Away Main St Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 2106
	Nick & Marys Drouin Take Away Food Main St Drouin VIC 3818 Telephone: (03) 5625 2411