In Ballarat we stayed in a Caravan park just outside of town, because it was the cheapest! After setting up the van we headed into town and found the Information centre. On the map we picked up we spotted an adventure playground by the lake so that is where we headed for a play, and a walk by the lake.
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| The Adventure Playground |
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| Lake Wendouree |
The next day we headed to Sovereign Hill, it was meant to be wet but we deceided to go anyway and we are glad we did, becuause it didn't rain - it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day and we all had a great time.
We struck gold when we went gold panning, and the kids were right into it, so we ended up panning two or three times over the day. We all enjoyed the Red Hill mine tour and a Horse and Cart ride around the town.
We watched the Gold pour, which is were they melt some gold and pour it into a mould, and Natalie was chosen from the crowd to hold the $170,000 gold bar once it was cooled, and thankfully she didn't drop it.
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| Gold panning at Sovereign Hill |
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| Natalie holding a 3Kg Solid Gold Bar |
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| We found these three! |
3 comments:
Priceless!! Well you and Liz better get busy.... just 97 more to go...
Van troubles, huh? We had some unplanned stops on our 'big trip' years ago too, as we checked for mysterious brake leaks (a cracked cordial bottle running out of the fridge...) and then snapped a stand off the back by driving off with it still wound down... Hard to find a welder on the weekend in the back of beyond!! Wilsons sounds like a great place for a forced stop anyway.... call it an added adventure and decide to laugh about it later. Love the blog, keep it up! Hugs to all, Tracey DS
Hi Mike, Liz,
Haven't commented before (obviously!). Just wanted to say that I'm loving the blog posts and envying you in a thoroughly ungodly way ! Keep up the good work...
Cheers, Tim
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