We set up camp in the town of Haddon at the Lions Club Park, it has water and toilets with a small mixed business up the road, very nice overlooking the river, payment by donation.
Ambled over to the Tourist Info (Ok we drove, to far to walk) got some maps and suggested places to go and explore the town. Up the main street Ballarat council have put up their Christmas display and it is like nothing we have ever seen before. In the middle of the road is a huge grassed divide with a massive Christmas tree with carols being played. It is Santa's reindeer and sleigh, stars, bells, small xmas trees and stockings that are so different. These are all 3D wire frames stuffed with straw and then have live plants that are flowering pushed into them, what unique way to do the display.
The next day we headed to the Botanical Gardens. The garden started life as a police horse paddock after the discovery of gold, they soon became the gardens in 1857 on picturesque Lake Wendouree. Also at the gardens is the only Ex Prisoner of War Memorial in Australia. It lists all P.O.W names from the Boar War through to Korea. what is frightening is there are over 35,000 names, some made it back a lot didn't.
We went to Memorial Avenue and the Victory Arch. The Memorial Avenue was the idea of Mrs Tillie Thomson, director of a local textile firm E. Lucas & Co. She suggested trees should be planted to honour the brave servicemen and women from Ballarat who served in the Great War. It took two years and approximately 500 staff who became known as the Lucas Girls to plant 3771 trees between 1917 and 1919 along a 22km stretch of road. Having completed the Memorial Avenue they set to work to give the Avenue a suitable entry, The Arch of Victory was opened by the Prince of Wales #rd June 1920. The Arch under went major restoration work in 2011.
Also at the Arch is a small garden called the Garden of the Grieving Mother and has a statue of a woman a woman holding a picture of her son. This garden is designed to honour and acknowledge the grief and anxiety experienced by those "at home" left behind.
Friday we got up and headed to the Amazing Mill Markets before we took off for Avoca . We went to one of these at Geelong, more memories, more old stuff, but this market had something different it had a display of props and clothing from the movie Wolf Creek 2. The display included Micks ute and his hat. That made my day! Got back to camp hooked up and hit the road again.
Ambled over to the Tourist Info (Ok we drove, to far to walk) got some maps and suggested places to go and explore the town. Up the main street Ballarat council have put up their Christmas display and it is like nothing we have ever seen before. In the middle of the road is a huge grassed divide with a massive Christmas tree with carols being played. It is Santa's reindeer and sleigh, stars, bells, small xmas trees and stockings that are so different. These are all 3D wire frames stuffed with straw and then have live plants that are flowering pushed into them, what unique way to do the display.
The next day we headed to the Botanical Gardens. The garden started life as a police horse paddock after the discovery of gold, they soon became the gardens in 1857 on picturesque Lake Wendouree. Also at the gardens is the only Ex Prisoner of War Memorial in Australia. It lists all P.O.W names from the Boar War through to Korea. what is frightening is there are over 35,000 names, some made it back a lot didn't.
We went to Memorial Avenue and the Victory Arch. The Memorial Avenue was the idea of Mrs Tillie Thomson, director of a local textile firm E. Lucas & Co. She suggested trees should be planted to honour the brave servicemen and women from Ballarat who served in the Great War. It took two years and approximately 500 staff who became known as the Lucas Girls to plant 3771 trees between 1917 and 1919 along a 22km stretch of road. Having completed the Memorial Avenue they set to work to give the Avenue a suitable entry, The Arch of Victory was opened by the Prince of Wales #rd June 1920. The Arch under went major restoration work in 2011.
Also at the Arch is a small garden called the Garden of the Grieving Mother and has a statue of a woman a woman holding a picture of her son. This garden is designed to honour and acknowledge the grief and anxiety experienced by those "at home" left behind.
Friday we got up and headed to the Amazing Mill Markets before we took off for Avoca . We went to one of these at Geelong, more memories, more old stuff, but this market had something different it had a display of props and clothing from the movie Wolf Creek 2. The display included Micks ute and his hat. That made my day! Got back to camp hooked up and hit the road again.
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