Saturday I decided to explore downtown Bendigo. Bendigo is lovely place, with lots of restaurants and shops and beautiful parks. Bendigo is a gold rush town, and has a long history around gold mining. Gold was discovered in Bendigo by two women. The secret got out when they went shopping with their gold (of course), then the gold rush was on. So in keeping with the history of the town, I went on a tour of the Bendigo gold mine. For $24 I went down into a gold mine, down 20 stories, which is level 2 of 17. Oh my gosh. I can't imagine going down to level 17! Level 2 was bad enough. I'm glad I can say I've been into a gold mine. But I have no desire to go ever go into a gold mine again. It's really dark and dirty and scary down there. Some of the folks on the tour thought the process was fascinating, but I felt more like the three year that starting screaming when they turned out the lights to show us how dark dark really is! The three year old was carried out of the mine, but I stuck it out. I'm so mature.
Between rain storms, I also explored the park downtown and some of the shops. First I went to the Bendigo Visitor Centre, which was very helpful and had an interesting interactive display on the history of the town. Then I went to the park downtown, which was really beautiful. But then the rain came, so no more exploring on Saturday.
Saturday I decided to explore downtown Bendigo. Bendigo is lovely place, with lots of restaurants and shops and beautiful parks. Bendigo is a gold rush town, and has a long history around gold mining. Gold was discovered in Bendigo by two women. The secret got out when they went shopping with their gold (of course), then the gold rush was on. So in keeping with the history of the town, I went on a tour of the Bendigo gold mine. For $24 I went down into a gold mine, down 20 stories, which is level 2 of 17. Oh my gosh. I can't imagine going down to level 17! Level 2 was bad enough. I'm glad I can say I've been into a gold mine. But I have no desire to go ever go into a gold mine again. It's really dark and dirty and scary down there. Some of the folks on the tour thought the process was fascinating, but I felt more like the three year that starting screaming when they turned out the lights to show us how dark dark really is! The three year old was carried out of the mine, but I stuck it out. I'm so mature.
Between rain storms, I also explored the park downtown and some of the shops. First I went to the Bendigo Visitor Centre, which was very helpful and had an interesting interactive display on the history of the town. Then I went to the park downtown, which was really beautiful. But then the rain came, so no more exploring on Saturday.
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