Tuesday 25 March 2014

The long road to the airport

The rain woke us up this morning. Just what we had hoped wouldn't happen, as now we have to try and dry the tent before our evening flight!

On our drive down the mountain we spotted deer and also ... the man about to close the road to start roadworks. Luckily, he let us through.

We stopped in a number of small towns, all associated with gold mining in the past. We visited a local art museum, which had some rather unusual displays. One exhibit was a video of a man, pretending to be a deer?!

We continued on to Ballerat which again was part of the gold mining area. We visited a small gold shop selling 'gold nuggets' found in the area but we resisted buying any.

Finally, we dropped our hire car at the airport and waited for our flight to New Zealand!