Sturt St Ballarat

We are not amused

The old jail is now part of Federation University

Eureka flag flying over its home town

Back to Sovereign Hill to see things we missed yesterday and our favourites from the day before.

Theatre

Hello horse

Wesleyan Methodist chapel with canvas roof

Underground mine interactive experience

Complete with temporary flooding to experience what it was like at times underground.

Hologram theatre underground

The Cat n The Hat ..well lots of hats.

Next door to Sovereign Hill is a Gold Museum showing off nuggets and gold coins through the ages.

The site of the Eureka Stockade. My great grandfather was born on the goldfields 60km north of here two days earlier than the Eureka Stockade.

Ballarat

The Avenue of Honour extending from the Ballarat Arch of Victory for approximately 22 kilometres with one tree for every one of the 3912 Ballarat and district men and women who served in World War One.

Ararat Town Hall

We leave the Western Highway and travel on country roads towards the Grampians.

The Grampians come into view very late in the day.

An emu in the paddock

Best friends

A kangaroo at our accommodation….

….nestled in below the Grampians for a very cold night.