Our second visit to the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally, we were last there in 2006 and I was looking forward to attending again this year.
The Lake Goldsmith Steam Preservation Association is located approx 45mins from Ballarat and located on 38 acre site, it is internationally recognised and the largest in southern hemisphere. It is unique in that it has 48 permanent sheds owned by club members which house their machines.
I wanted to take Dad after attending in 2006 so organized with Malcolm and Puk for Mum to stay there for the day, we agreed to meet at Malcolm’s and then make our way from there.
For the trip up we had Wendy who is down from QLD and then picked Dad up at Malcolm and Puk’s, my nephew Noah was also keen to go along so we had one very full car with 7 of us piled in for the trip to Lake Goldsmith.
Once arriving we headed straight for shed 17 to drop our stuff off and have something to eat or drink. John Herman was involved in the early days and helped build this shed so it made for a staging point for the rest of the day.
We also joined the Herman clan, including John, Morna, Warwick, Fiona and Michael, shortly after lunch, Caitlin and Noah joined Michael for a trip around the grounds whilst the adults made there way to the oval for the grand parade.
After a little while we began to become worried as we hadn’t seen the kids for a while but quickly located them riding on the Charles Burrell traction engine in the parade!
Apparently Michael kept asking different owners until someone finally agreed to let them ride on their engine in the parade!
(check out pictures IMG_6911 to IMG_6921)
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Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally11/01/2009 08:25 PM
