Mount Arapiles recovery camp
We left Ballarat at about 7:00pm Friday, stopping in Ararat for dinner.
I've been to Ararat a few times before, most recently for a field trip to the J Ward gaol/mental institution. Witnessed two old men ou the front of the bottleshop, gurgling at the top of their voices. They could be heard all over town. There was also a woman in the supermarket who kept walking into people, probably because she was walking backwards.
Once we'd had dinner, we drove on through Stawell, passing the roof of Haydn's parents' house. Someone suggested to Haydn that he should call his parents so they could climb up on the roof and wave to them, but he didn't think that was a good idea.
Next city was Horsham. From Horsham we almost ended up going to Adelaide, but, luckily, we realised we were going the wrong way, and turned back, heading for Grass Flat.
Grass Flat is so small, it's barely even a place. There's no pub, petrol station or general store. There's just a church, which is apparently used once a fortnight. That's where we stayed.

In the morning we went out to Mt Arapiles to go rock-climbing. I wasn't rock-climbing though - I was exhausted from doing a unit in 48 hours.

Before dinner we played Risk. My mission was to anihilate Russel, but I was unable to get anywhere near him. I had one territory left (Western United States), and Moose could have destroyed me easily, attacking from Central America. But i convinced him not to, since it could have been somone else's mission to destroy me. So he didn't, and next shot I cashed in some cards, got 25 units and took over most of North America, leaving Hadyn with one unit in Quebec - in case it was someone's mission to destroy Hadyn. Next shot, Steve knocked off Hadyn's last unit, winning the game for Devo. And ity turned out that it was someone's mission to destroy me - Steve's.

After dinner we drove into Natimuk to watch Space and Place, part of the Natimuk Fringe Festival, a.k.a. Nati Frinj. Space and Place was a production about the Wimmera region, which consisted of images projected onto a cluster of silos, accompanied by aerial dance and music.
Afterwards we went to the pub and watched the end of the Rugby World Cup grand final, in which England beat Australia, on extra time.

Sunday morning we had a church service. Moose talked a bit about persecution.
After the church service we chucked a rugby ball around for a bit, then played cricket, on the old, crumbling, wedd-infested tennis courts.

After the others had lunch (I was still fasting) we packed our stuff and cleaned the church up, then started the long drive home.

In the end there was no 'nature walk'. Russ, Steve and Devo chased a few rabbits, but that was pretty short-lived.