The Royal Geelong Show is back for four action-packed days, with the community being treated to many pre-existing and new activities.
The event will run from Thursday 16 October to Sunday 19 October at Geelong Showgrounds to celebrate all things regional and rural, including homecrafts, food, rides and family entertainment.
Coordinator Catherine Powell said this year’s show would have all the traditional favourites such as vintage machinery and animals, along with a few new additions.
“We’ve got the fireworks at 8.45pm on Friday and Saturday, and they are going to be bigger and better than previous years, which is going to be very exciting,” she said.
“Then in the shearing shed, we’ve got all the sheep competitions like normal, but then we also have a new shearing comp, so shearing’s been really fired up this year.
“Instead of monster trucks this year, we have life-size Hot Wheels, so it’s a Hot Wheels Stuntman Show, so the cars are literally like toy Hot Wheels cars in real life doing races and things like that.
“The Tractor Lady and the Strong Geelong team are also teaming up together, with participants pulling the tractor at one of the competitions, so that’s going on all day on Sunday in the shearing shed.”
Ms Powell said the show had been held near the middle of October for close to 170 years and that she was expecting around 100,000 people to come through the gates over the four days.
Visit royalgeelongshow.org.au for more information and to purchase tickets.
