Ararat & Halls Gap

Just so that Adam's 3 weeks off, and Eric's arrival wasn't all play and no fun, we did take a day off and wandered over to the Chinese Museum in Ararat and then onto Halls Gap for a quick look.

Over the next few weekends we've got to do a bit more sightseeing around and about.

Ararat's the only Chinese founded city in Australia - out of the gold rush days and the Chinese Museum there - Gum San - is really interesting and very well laid out. For more: www.gumsan.com.au

The museum sits up on the high side of the street - approaching it makes it look like quite an imposing building:



Gardens and statues at the front as you work your way up the steps (or around the sloping path):



A trip to the roof is well worthwhile after you've been through the museum to see the impressive pavilion:




A look back towards the Mt Cole / Ben Nevis area:


The roof detail is beautiful although we couldn't for the life of us work out the significance of the roosters :D


From Ararat we headed up to Halls Gap - Eric is hoping to do some climbing and/or hiking in the Grampians:

The fringe of rocky mountains that surround Halls Gap are very imposing, and very very close.



Here we were parked at the Aboriginal Centre just outside Halls Gap, where we had a really nice stroll around the pond - and saw some of the damage from the high winds recently, as well as met some very nice kangaroos.






We were particularly pleased to run across this very quiet kangaroo - with a very cheeky joey. It's not the greatest photo in the world as she wasn't too interested in staying still at the right angle, but the joey is busily engaged in having a feed of grass - without the need to move from the pouch:



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