“BANG!,
BANG!, BANG! Went the guns in rapid succession. We were at Sovereign Hill on
Friday the 21st of November and some red coat soldiers were marching
along the street outside.
It had been
a really long bus ride to get there. When we finally did everyone got off and
went into our groups of about 14 with our leader, my leader was Mrs. Matsoukas,
Layla’s dad and someone else I didn’t know. Our group had a small snack and
went on our way to Redhill mine.
When we got
there we were directed to an artificial mine, it was really cool looking down
into the raggedy, dim mine. There were 52 steps going down and 53 coming back
up (that’s 105 steps if you hadn’t noticed). It was a self-guided tour with
overhead speakers to tell where to go. There was also a short clip from a
projector; it showed a miner when he found the welcome nugget (the second last
largest gold nugget ever found second only to the welcome stranger), then they
showed us a replica of the original.
After that
we had a bite to eat and watched a man make lollies in a place called Brown & Co’s Confectionary. It was
really cool watching him knead some pastry looking stuff on a hot plate, and
then he put it in a roller to make into a make it into a spherical shape. Then
we all got to sample the sweets he’d made. They were DELICOUS!
Some of the
other highlights were: bowling (9 pins and you had to set them up yourself),
the lolly shop (delicious hard boiled sweets), panning for gold (I found a
whole milligram of gold! (Insert sarcasm here)) And watching a man melt gold in
a clay and graphite pot then putting it into a mould and making an ingot. It
was awesome.
Overall
Sovereign Hill was awesome and everyone had an amazing time!
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