To Bonorong
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 30 Jan 2016 23:17
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To
Bonorong
 We jumped up at the crack of sparrows
for the longish journey from Strahan to Bonorong Wildlife
Sanctuary – our camp just ten minutes further on. We knew the road would
be a wiggly one, but not quite so mountainous.
 All began pretty
flat.
 Approaching Queenstown, the relics of mining became the scenery.
 Not a soul
about at ten o’clock.
  The Galley
Museum and opposite the Miners
siding.
  Miners and War
Memorials.
  Queenstown
Station – our destination on our Wilderness train journey. The Empire Hotel opposite. Later, we met someone who was
born in the town, “Oh, yes, a soulless ghost town since the mines closed”. How
very sad.
  We left Queenstown and shortly the wicked witch told us things were now going to be wiggly
– and steep.
 Just around the
next bend was the Queenstown Lookout, we stopped and found so many
interesting information boards.
  The puddle next to
Mabel showing so much iron in the water. The metal sheet a memory of mining
 The view over
Queenstown, tiny in the distance.
 I had Bear cross the road and pose to
show I haven’t messed with the amazing colours of the
roadside.
 Nice to see a
waterfall.
  Our next stop was at Blow Hole Lookout.
 The colour of the
rocks was even more outstanding.
 We looked back at
this incredible lookout just as one camper van turned up.
 A way down the hill we passed a memorial to lost miners.
 Heading toward
water. No trees on the slopes.
  Our last look up at the barren mining land and through Linda
Valley.
 Over Bradshaw Bridge.
 We crossed the Nive River.
 Massive hydro-electric water pipes to the turbines.
  The water
pipes stayed with us for a far few miles.
 We loved the sign
to Laughing Jack Lagoon.
   Woodland,
rolling hills and the odd village.
  Glen Clyde
House, we could indeed have been in the Lowlands of Scotland.
  Much flatter
scenery.
  The ‘crowded’
road took us past the Gretna Green
Hotel.
 The final stretch of road was beside
the Derwent River.
 A fine rig
just before we turned into the park.
ALL IN ALL A REALLY
INTERESTING JOURNEY
A SURPRISING AMOUNT OF
MINING |