It started Friday or Saturday, 7/8 of March. Apparently there was a waterskiing competition on Saturday afternoon but I didn't go (because of the IH girls softball)............. However I did go on Saturday night, for the first of 2 visits.
It's basically a fun fair- carnival sort of thing. There were food stalls, selling cotton candy, cinnamon doughnuts, lemonade, toffee apples, "Dagwood Dogs" (basically a sausage deep-fried in batter--- tastes horrible), fruit punch etc. The food was ridiculously expensive, even a bottle of water cost AU$3.50, most other things cost AU$4.
Then there were the games where you win soft toys for beating the establishment. There were a few basic kinds:
Type 1: You throw something to hit a target
Type 2: You sit at a table with 9 other people and press buttons to move a cardboard cut-out in a "race"
Type 3: Scratch and win, except you need quite a few tickets to combine their scores
Type 4: You hit a machine that gauges your strength. Above a certain score you win a prize.
All of them cost at least AU$5 for a real chance at winning
There were also the rides. A Ferris wheel, rides that turn you every which way until you are ready to puke, the Sling-Shot (AU$30, this one, but probably worth it), with most about AU$7 each.
And last but not least, the fireworks. I went there again on Monday, 10th March (Labour Day) to watch the finale.
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