Tassie

Last night we sailed on the Spirit of Tasmania. We slept in a cabin. Before that I played the X-Box. There were a lot of people waiting so I didn't play for long. When we left Melbourne, I went up  on the 10th deck to see the ferry leave but it was nearly an hour late. We still got to Devonport on time at 6am.

Now I am Tasmania with Nan and Pop. These are the photos we took.

Nana handed me over to Nan

This was in my cabin

I am on the 10th deck waiting to leave.

This is me with Nan

I am with Pop

Water Park Fun Werribee

We stayed with Alan and Halana for two days. When we left we went to a waterpark at Werribee. There were two slides and I went on both of them. The green one was smaller and I went down on a tube by myself. It was very fast. The blue one was the biggest and best. I went down with other people. We nearly turned upside down up near the top.

These are the two water slides. The blue one is the biggest and best.

Geelong

We were going to go on a train and see a fort at Queenscliff but nothing was open so we went to the waterfront at Geelong. I climbed on the buoys which were on the grass. I went on a trampoline with a harness and I did front flips and back flips. Back flips were easiest. I was jumping about 7 metres. We had fish and chips on a boat that was not floating. There were a lot of colourful bollards.

I climbed up on one of the buoys.

I joined the band.

I am on the trampoline.

This bollard is a ships captain.

This is the boat / cafe where we had lunch.

Another Hot Day in Bendigo

It was 38 degrees again today. We are staying in a caravan park at Bendigo so we can have air conditioning. At the caravan park they had mini golf but you had to go to reception to get a club and ball and every time I went there I have a mentos lolly. They had a jumping pillow, swing, pool, camp kitchen and play area.

This is the tour tram around Bendigo.

This is the tram museum.

I pretended to drive an old tram.

This is the oldest Chinese temple in Australia
It is almost 150 years old.

Nana and I went to the temple.

Bendigo

Today we are in Bendigo and will probably stay for another night.I have been filling in time before the tour by going to the top for a walk around and panning for gold.I found some quartz with some gold and some fools gold. We went in a slow lift underground. we went 60 meters underground. There was a fast lift that went 3 meters a second. It was the lift that miners used 150 years ago.It faster but takes only 4 people. They use it every day.

I climbed to the top of this. 

This is me panning for gold.
I fond quartz with a bit of gold.

Can you see me at the top of the stair case?

This is me wearing my hard hat and beld with battary.

This is me and the tour guide. There were 19 people on the tour.

The rocks are held back by some wire and poles hammered in.

Eureka!

The dictionary says that Eureka is a cry of joy for finding something. In Ballarat they found lots of gold. One of the mines was called the Eureka Mine. There was a battle between the miners and the soldiers at the Eureka Stockade. We went to the Australian Museum of Democracy today. It is on the spot where the fight took place.

The soldiers used muskets with bayonets to kill 30 of the miners. 125 were taken as prisoners. Their leader was Peter Lalor. The previous day there were about 10 000 people who came for a meeting at the stockade. They could have been killed if the police came that night. They didn't come until the next dawn and there were only a couple of hundred people there.

The story of the Eureka flag

I was part of the message

This is me with the red coats

 

This is me fighting under the Eureka flag

Later in the day it got really hot and I went to the Swim Centre for a couple of hours. There was a pool with a slide and I went down about 200 times. The water park was fun too. I liked the large rings with water squirting out.

Gold Rush of 1850

Hi I am The Welcome Nugget with Cooper

This golden nugget is called The Welcome Nugget. This was found 50m under the ground.This is the second biggest Nugget ever found in the whole world. The biggest nugget is the Welcome Stranger which was found only 2cm under the ground. It is now worth more than $3.5 million. This is more than you will ever get in your whole life.

These nuggets (which are probably copies) are at the gold museum at Sovereign Hill. There were gold coins there and small nuggets. The whole place where we went is exactly the same way as the time of the gold rush. There were not as many tents though because there were more than 5000 people digging. You could spend all day there having a lot of fun.

I went in the Red Hill mine. There were lots of voices telling us what to do. When they said to stop some people didn't and went through the water. There was another copy of the Welcome nugget in that mine too. We saw a miner digging for gold. When he found some he called out for his mate to come. His mate was pushing a cart. We came out the same door that we went in.  It was just a big loop. There were 52 steps and 53 steps up and there was a ladder that was three metres high.

  

This is me panning for gold

There were lots of people on the diggings.

The Red Hill Mine

The Redcoats put on a display.
Their muskets were stunningly loud.

At night we camped at a park. I put out the awning to get some shade and I helped set up the solar panels. You only have to give a donation to stay there and they have toilets and hot showers. The council wants to stop camping and maybe make a caravan park to get more money. We wrote good things about the park so it might stay open.