By JESSE GRAHAM
SIX years to the day after the Black Saturday bushfires, hundreds of people gathered in Healesville to stop and remember.
Shortly after 5pm on Saturday 7 February, the crowd that filled the Healesville Railway Station’s car park and playground for the Black Saturday Remembrance Cruise held a minute of silence for the 173 people killed in the tragic 2009 bushfires.
Cruise organisers, Wendy Bennett and Stacey and Troy Kinsmore (pictured), led a group on a remembrance walk around Healesville’s Labyrinth, before laying a candle in the middle of the labyrinth in memory of their friend and Black Saturday victim, Kate Ansett.
The cruise, which travels from Lilydale to Healesville via Toolangi and Chum Creek, has been run for the last four years, and Ms Kinsmore said this year may have had the biggest attendance yet.
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