Amusements in 2006
In December 2006, a Ferris wheel reported as the largest non-permanent ferris wheel in the southern hemisphere, was renovated by Phoenix Fabrication & Welding of Geelong who enlarged the gondolas. It comprises 36 Gondola carriages, each with capacity to seat 6 persons. It has a 50 meter peak clearance and each ride is 10–12 minutes in duration. It was then erected in the same area in which Hy-Lite Park once stood.
It was imported from overseas by the Verfurth family who run Hi-Lite Amusements, having also operated Hy-Lite Park under the ownership of first-generation showman Emile Verfurth.
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“All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)