We watched a show at the Victoria Theater. The latter was a total flop when it opened it only survived 5 months. In the meanwhile, a circus from San Francisco stayed for 5 years. It was so popular that its musicians led the city's miner parade!
I had a good laugh at the drapery shop, where a dignified old lady dressed in black was sternly asking a tourist to go and get decent clothest. It was again an act; she then lifted her skirts to show the number of layers that was considered proper at the time.
Inside the drapery shop.
I bought a pillbox for my mom, and here's the receipt.
The apothecary shop.
The funeral entrepreneur gave me his card saying: "Come back before 1890, that's when we went out of business".
Singing no matter what.
The gold was picked out of the river to the left, to be melted into ingots.
The final product.
I couldn't resist the photographer this time...
The day ends when the redcoats march through the streets, salute the flag and lower it.
Katt grabbed one of them for a picture.
Saturday September 25
We walked around Sovereign Hill again before checking out, then visited the town's gold museum. There we found the Welcome Stranger, largest gold nugget in the world. It was found by three lucky miners who at first didn't seem so lucky at all. Demoralized by the failure of their mine, they closed it and left. After a few kilometers they were bogged. While digging their wheels out of the sand they hit something hard. Need I continue? The Welcome Stranger was 2.5 cm from the surface. It weighs 71 kg and its gold is exceptionally pure. It is also in Ballarat that the second largest nugget was found.
