Woke up to a great day - sunshine finally and after picking a bowl of blackberries from down by the Moorabool River we departed our camp mid morning and traveled via narrow back roads and one-lane bridges to Ballarat, where we went to the famous "Soveriegn Hill & the Gold Museum" only to find it was $41.00 each to get in and international tourists everywhere, so we gave that a big miss and watched the promo film on it and the displays in the foyer and gift shops instead where we bought some emu oil cream which is supposed to be good for arthritis, aches and pains. After having a look around we headed out to Krayal Castle then north towards Creswick where we had hoped to camp at a forest reserve there called "Slaty Creek", but after traveling down some really narrow fire tracks and getting lost we arrived at this narrow T-junction only to find it was closed due to the recent floods which had washed out roads etc. So after some careful reversing with the Suzuki in tow we managed to turn around and then continued on via Daylesford on to a quiet roadside stop for the night about 6kms south of Castlemaine called "Jessie Kennedy Reserve" (apparantly she was the first white person to be born in this area of Victoria). This part of the country is renown for it's gold, so might finally get to use the metal detector if we can find some-one to help set it up properly! Digital & Analogue TV reception was good here, but no Vodafone mobile or Internet, Telstra mobile was very poor too.
