This weekend, starting from Thursday is the Rainbow Festival only 20 minutes from here at Beaufort. Driving around Ballarat, Beaufort, and yes, even Snake Valley, you can see an assortment of colourful characters in Kombi Vans, hitchhiking, sleeping in parks, wandering aimlessly (on some planet), and basically looking at peace (or somewhere).
It is a return to the 60's & 70's. This thing is HUGE!!!
Here is the event:
http://rainbowserpent.net/