A couple of hours driving from Clarkes Lagoon and here we are at Glenrowan, the scene of Ned Kelly's last stand.   This town is Ned Kellyville!   Life-sized and bigger than life-size and much, much bigger than life-sized models of Ned in his long bush ranger oilskin coat, boots and iron hood and body armour.   Even when we checked into the caravan park; Ned with pistol in hand, stood on the driveway – waiting!

We set up camp then jumped in their lovely pool to cool down.   It was around 34 degrees.

It was around 4pm before we headed into town to go to a pretty unique theatre here.   The vision of a local man who, over the past 20 years, has created an animatronic (so he calls it – animated electronics) and computerized robotic theatre of the events, over 3 days, leading up to the capture of Ned Kelly and the Kelly gang.   He has set up all the scenes, that played out that night 130 years ago, mostly within a huge building. The police on the special train, despatched from Melbourne, who were bent on capturing Ned, dead or alive;  the Glenrowan Inn where Ned held many prisoners;  set up like a movie studio outside is the scene of the gun battle;  the railway station where Ned was taken after being captured after the gun battle;  then into a separate building which is the Inn which was set alight in an attempt to flush out the rest of the gang (we were in this building with the 'smoke’ and the sounds and flashes of gunfire) but all perished in the fire;  then finally to the Melbourne Gaol and the hanging – this was quite unique as the trap door opened above us and good old Ned swung in front of us.

This whole show was amazing –it wasn't a movie!   Each room or location was self-contained and used animation, holigraphed faces on models, all scripted and we moved from location to location over a 45 minute performance.

Totally incredible!   It has cost him more than $8.5million, over the years, to set up.   He has so many antiques from the time including 6 of the Kelly gang rifles and original furniture from the Inn.

After the show we went to the Glenrowan Pub for a couple of drinks before heading back to camp for dinner.   During the night, the rain started and the temperature cooled blissfully!   It was still raining, hard and heavy, in the morning and it was a pretty wet job hitching up in it.   I held the umbrella over Bill so he wouldn't get totally drenched, even though he had a raincoat on.   The wind was getting up more and more as we headed of the fuel up for our trip to Torquay, the surfers holy grail, some 325km south west and an exercise in working our way around Melbourne.