We spent couple of days in the local mountains called Grampians. Honestly it’s more like hills than mountains , but for locals everything higher than grass is called mountains. Halls Gap – nice village in the valley and land of the wild life especially kangaroos. We saw amazing kangaroo kickboxing tournament at the camp early in the morning. We had unique opportunity to be sited in the first row actually even more - we could watch it from our bed via rear car window. Two big ( human size ) males stood on the toes and using their short front legs tried to knock partner’s tooth out. They also kicked opponent using two legs at the same time being supported when ‘on air’ by own tail. You can believe or not but it was real 30 minutes of the local kickboxing . It’s time for a short Gold Fever trip as we are in Victoria where majority of Australian gold has been found. We visited couple of cities like Bendigo, Castelmine, Molden and finally landed in Ballarat – capitol of Gold Rush. Can you imagine that in couple of months since they discovered gold in 1851 tens of thousands of hopefuls from Australia, China, Europe and USA arrived to Ballarat ? Within a decade Australia’s population had trebled. Today we visited Soveregin Hill, the living museum recreating the early days of the city and tried to find some gold in the creek to be rich and famous, but … I have to go to the Gold Shop and buy something instead !
Photos, Bendigo, Ballarat
Emma, is your family involved in all these big steam machines ( still working )here at all ?
Photos, Bendigo, Ballarat
Emma, is your family involved in all these big steam machines ( still working )here at all ?