“A Gnome Away from Home” back with more fun and a new sport
The Gnome Festival
Wonderful garden ornaments and terrible puns will once again grace the streets of Collingwood on August 20, 21 and 22.
The fourth annual Collingwood Gnome Festival, “A Gnome Away From Home” will feature an interesting array of gnomish activities, a car-boot sale and market and some spectacular discounts on tourist attractions.
Spokesman Paddy Gillooly says that this year’s festival will once again begin with the popular quiz in the tavern on Friday night.
“On the Saturday we’re offering 50 per cent discount on Farewell Spit tours to anyone accompanied by a gnome,” said Paddy. “Gail McKnight at Cape Farewell Horse Treks is doing something similar too. The Sunday will see Gnome Sports in Collingwood’s Tasman Street. There’ll be a Gnome Run and we’re expecting all of last year’s participants plus a few new contenders in that. Then there’ll be Gnome Tossing, Gnome Bungy, and Gnome Racing in the street as well. A new event this year is Gnome Pinball, and we’re expecting that to be very popular.
“While the gnome sports sound very physical, I’m able to confirm that very few gnomes are harmed in the course of the festival events.”
The Gnome festival takes place each winter when the Bay is quiet. It offers an opportunity for locals to get out and have some fun in some of the places enjoyed by thousands of tourists every summer. It also brings in people from outside the Bay at a time when tourism businesses are less busy.
Gerard Hindmarsh
