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07/8/2020 at 12:30am
Location: Melbourne Australia
Outfit: Windsor Rapid Off Road Van + tents
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The final day from our short trip away.
Another minus 1 on Monday morning, I tried to get the girls up to see the sunrise but I probably knew deep down that I had Buckley’s, Ha!
Our social distancing this weekend had been quite successful, one last pic of our camp and then we were on the road towards home.
Rushworth is a lovely small country town with plenty of substantial and historic buildings still standing.
Nearly every building has a heritage plaque on it telling of it’s history.
And the last of the buildings in the main street that I”ll show you.
On the outskirts of town, a few hundred metres from those others, is the St Paul’s Anglican Church.
A few ks to the south is the Whroo Historical Reserve, our first stop was at the open cut area of the Balaclava Hill Mine. In the late 1850s over 2000 people were in the area with many millions of pounds of gold retrieved from the quartz reefs.
A number of tunnels were dug into the quartz laden hard rock.
The area was stripped bare as most trees were cut for supports in the shafts and tunnels. Those that weren’t used for that were cut for firewood, today the area has regenerated having many significantly sized Iron Bark trees with their unique bark.
In the local cemetery there have been over 400 burials, a large number of those were children of the miners along with a number that were born during the gold rush.
A lot of the children died very young, on this plaque the age (even in minutes) has been noted)
A short walk from the cemetery is what is known as, the Ngurai-Illam-Wurrung Rock Wells. They were used by Aborigines and later enlarged by gold miners so that they could immerse their billies in them. The Aborigines would often protect their waterholes with a rock to prevent pollution by animals and to help reduce evaporation.
We continued our drive home stopping on the banks of the Goulburn River at Seymour for afternoon tea and then stopping at the St Joseph’s Catholic Church at Tallarook.
The foundations of the church were laid in 1866, no one is quite sure why but it was completed 19 years later in 1885.
And that is the end of what we saw and experienced on our Queens Birthday Long Weekend away.
Regards from Col and Jen.
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The worst day above ground, is a whole lot better than the best one under it. Live life to the fullest while you can.
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