Begonia Festival

Well we have lived in Ballarat for 3 years now and finally managed to get along to the festival Ballarat is famous for. I must say that I was glad I had only driven 5 minutes down the road and not halfway across the State for the privilege!

While the flowers were pretty and the strawberry pancakes yummy, the whole experience took a little over an hour (I do wish I had eaten slower... too yummy!). At least it was mostly free to attend and the whole atmosphere was relaxed and village like. The cost to view the flowers in the giant glass house was a bit silly really,,,, they were in a glass house after all. We just looked from the outside!
The highlights for me were the sand castle sculpter and the Leonig type characters in a pedal boat.

The sail reads " The boat of Faith is kept afloat, by stars above and fish below" Very deep meaning... I think!?!