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Thousand of people streamed through the Rotary Club of Bendigo Sandhurst art and craft market on Friday, with club president Paul Henderson counting an average of one patron per second passing by his stall.
“It’s terrific, the weather’s perfect, the crowd just keeps flowing through,” he said.
“We’ve been going since 9 o’clock this morning with the crowd coming through and they’re still coming now, it’s been a really good day.”
Mr Henderson said the market got bigger and better every year, with a record 200 stalls on board in 2016.
“It’s just a great range of stuff it really is terrific,” he said.
“We go till about 4 o’clock and them move them all out and then they come back again Sunday morning and we do the same thing again.”
Bendigo born and bred Steve Ipsen said he’d been coming to the Easter Festival for almost 40 years and was taking advantage of an early start to pick up a few bargains.
“Had to pick up the kid from a sleepover, saw the market here and dropped in just to hit it while it was quiet,” he said.
A ceramic hippopotamus had already caught Mr Ipsen’s eye and he promised to give it a good home.
Mr Henderson said Easter was always a terrific time of year in Bendigo.
“It’s a great time to be in Bendigo,” he said.
“You wouldn't want to be anywhere else over Easter.”