While at Port Fairy we continued along the coast to a place called Warnambool...here we visited the Maritime Village called Flagstaff Hill. This village comes complete with bank, cooper, ship chandlery, pub/inn and much more. 
The cottage were this was taken was in one of the lighthouse keeper cottages. Volunteers are situated throughout the village and as you can see this lady , in period costume, was quilting.The lighthouses were interesting to and we did manage to get the original photo above from the lighthouse which was open for inspection. There are two lights and to get into the harbour you have to actually line these lights up.....no wonder they call this the shipwreck coast.
This is the famous Minton peacock which was washed up on the beach from the wreck the Loch Ard. (Please see future blog where we actually go to Loch Ard Gorge.) This priceless artifact was being shipped out on the Loch Ard for the opening of the Melbourne Great Exhibition, it did eventually arrive but it was a year to late. (This was in the 1850 area but I can't remember the exact year.
We had a pleasant time wondering the grounds and viewing all the incredible artifacts that they are setting up...no kids around and very few tourists again so we had the place pretty much to ourselves.
The building in the middle is the village gaol, the church to the right and lovely cobble stones to join it all together. They run a small film when you go in and it was very well done. It depicts the journey from England to Warnambool on board a ship, with all the food, storage, storms, boredom and excitement that is involved in travel at that time. They also run an evening laser show on a similar vain, in the main harbour area, you can have dinner there as well and we were very tempted but again just ran out of time.
This is the famous Minton peacock which was washed up on the beach from the wreck the Loch Ard. (Please see future blog where we actually go to Loch Ard Gorge.) This priceless artifact was being shipped out on the Loch Ard for the opening of the Melbourne Great Exhibition, it did eventually arrive but it was a year to late. (This was in the 1850 area but I can't remember the exact year.
We had a pleasant time wondering the grounds and viewing all the incredible artifacts that they are setting up...no kids around and very few tourists again so we had the place pretty much to ourselves.
The building in the middle is the village gaol, the church to the right and lovely cobble stones to join it all together. They run a small film when you go in and it was very well done. It depicts the journey from England to Warnambool on board a ship, with all the food, storage, storms, boredom and excitement that is involved in travel at that time. They also run an evening laser show on a similar vain, in the main harbour area, you can have dinner there as well and we were very tempted but again just ran out of time.
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