Daylesford – Day 3
25/04/2010
Sovereign Hill, Ballarat is about a 40 minute drive from Tuki. An open air museum that is located on a site linked to the richest alluvial gold rush in the world.
It has over 60 historically recreated buildings, with costumed volunteers and is complete with antiques, artwork, books, machinery, livestock and animals, carriages and devices all appropriate to the 1850′s era.
This old man wouldn’t stop talking about how her daughter bought him this accordian from Shanghai. Then he started spouting out Cantonese, Mom went to sit by his side and he said, “Oh come come! Come sit next to this ham sap lou…”
We had a spot of lunch at the New York Bakery =)
At the goldsmith, Dad attempted to lift a gold bar…
Retro print house. Bought some prints and posters for the house…
Dad marched into the millinery shop, put on this cowboy hat and demanded a picture…
This is how candles were made. Coincidentally the shop sold various kinds of vegetable oil soaps as well, at just $2.95 each, Mom and I bought up a storm, of course!
Outside the sundry shop…
We raced back to Tuki from Ballarat, hoping to catch some trout for dinner. After all, why stay on a trout farm if you don’t try your hand at trout fishing, right? We hung around for about 45 minutes, all the while watching (enviably) this 2 girls in mini skirts and 3 inch heels, catching trout after trout and squealing away; our fishing rods in the mean time, refused to budge.
That explains why Leo looked like this…
In the end, we gave up, went into the restaurant and bought 4 fresh trouts to cook for dinner (much easier!)
The next morning, we woke up to a herd of stallions right in front of our cottages; bade Tuki goodbye and headed back to Melbourne.
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