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We took The Kid and her cousin Sam to the Tangled Maze in Creswick over the weekend. We went through both mazes and played a round of mini golf on their golf course.

The big maze was excellent. It would have taken us nearly an hour to work our way through to the exit. The kids were each given a card with a series of things they had to find as they went through; completing every question got them a reward at the end. There were 7 questions, and you had to remember them all. The hardest was finding the six different grass rakes that each had a letter on them; you then had to assemble the letters into a word.

The maze was made up of a whole lot of different plants. Some were traditional hedging plants, while others were creepers and shrubs that had been trained onto trellises and fences. As everywhere could see the impact of the drought; I’m sure that in a wetter time when the vegetation was more lush and flowering it would be a fantastic sight.

The smaller maze was only knee high, and was obviously much easier to race through. That was their ‘daisy maze’, and I’m sure when the daisies are in full bloom it looks lovely. It was a cold and windy day when we visited though, so most of the flowers were sleeping.

The mini golf was fun too. Some holes were really easy, and some were difficult. Sam managed to bag two hole-in-one shots, which was a great effort. The Kid struggled a little bit with her golf action, but got there in the end.

I’ve put some shots up on SmugMug, and left a few more comments on each shot.

I found out why our ‘net connection was slow. We had been throttled by the ISP, as I kind of suspected. I didn’t have access to their online web usage stats, but a quick call to their support desk fixed that (I couldn’t remember the password!) and I saw that we had just nudged over the monthly 15GB limit. Ticked over to a new month at midnight though, so we’re back to full speed.