Ned Kelly Trail 19/12

Another smokey day as we drove inland nearer to the bush fires than before. We were following the Ned Kelly trail, however some of the locations were near the fire zone so we had to give them a miss.

After driving through Euroa and Benalla we arrived at Beechworth, Australia's best preserved gold town and where Ned Kelly was charged with murder.



We were thankful we didn't break down here as the recovery vehicles looked in much need of repair.



We found a historic gold dredge in the middle of the countryside. Unfortunately there were no gold nuggets lying around.



Next, to Glenrowan. Scene of Ned Kelly's last stand where he wore the armour he is well known for. He held local town folk hostage in the hotel before a shoot out with police. He sustained 28 gun shot wounds before being taken to Melbourne to be put on trial and subsequently hanged.




Giant Ned Kelly, another "big thing"



Statues mark the spots where the shootout took place.



We then visited the weirdest theatrette containing mannequins with human faces projected onto them so they looked alive. The whole experience was very strange and designed to terrify the life out of children. As we left the owner explained to us with great enthusiasm that he was planning more ways to scare his future customers.