Hello!! How are your weekends going? Busy? Fun? Relaxing? Mad?
We drove down the West to the Zeehan Gem and Mineral Fair today! (Rock Nerd City here)
It was a great day. Lovely drive and of course – lots of rocks and fossils to ooh and ahh over (and maybe purchase)(Ok, we did purchase… some) 🙂
On the way home I really wanted to go in and see Montezuma Falls which we always drive past because we don’t have time to walk it.
Well… we went for quite a decent walk down towards the falls but didn’t finish. Not sure if I mentioned that Miss Emma had quite a serious car accident a few months back and busted her leg in three places!!
So her Aunt drags her off for a therapeutic walk 😀 (My sister will be so pleased with me… ummmm)
Emma did pretty well… I just made sure she told us when she needed to turn back – keeping in mind there was all the way we had already come to backtrack!! (That sentence made sense in my head)
Actually Emma was pretty keen to build a shack and live here! Glad she is a lover of the environment!
Its a really good track. About 4kms down to the falls and nice and wide without the rock jumping we have to do on some of the other tracks we walk along.
Back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s this was all a mining area. The track we are walking on had a little set of rails for a trolley car.
Most of the bush was cleared each side and its taken over 100 years to get back to this beautiful state. Some would say thats fast, but if its cleared again, I won’t see that kind of beauty return in my lifetime.
It was wonderfully peaceful down there. Crisp fresh air, but we weren’t cold at all!
The greens were so… green!!!
And even though we got a smattering of rain in the morning, most of the day was pretty gorgeous.
The original bridge has been left for us to admire and for ferns to grow on!
This is probably my fault… I’ve been pointing a camera at her since she was 18 months old!! (Well younger really, but thats when the constant snapping started happening)
Walking with Uncle Jeff while Aunty Yaya (er.. me) gets behind (again) taking photos!
Bad hair day for this frond
Fallen tree!
It was a lovely afternoons walk. Looking forward to returning and getting as far as the waterfall someday!
Well… everyone has long gone to bed – including Pip who I need to extract from under my windcheater to put to bed!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend!
Cheers
(haha – Hairy-Butt-Girl seemed to be watching me all afternoon!!)
Beautiful pictures. Looks like it was a great walk.
What was mined there long ago?
The area (The town of Rosebery) still actually has active mines – gold was found there, but also zinc and lead. Now the operators produce zinc, lead copper, gold and silver. There were problems in the early days with being able to process the zinc so things failed. Once they sorted out better methods they were delayed completing the processing mills because of the great depression. Since then its been all go. Over 75 years in fact!
That is some SERIOUS hair! How long has it taken to grow that long?
Looks like a great hiking area.
Hi! The real part of her hair is part/halfway down her back and she wove in the extentions herself! Its crazy huh? She’s had some fun with my leftover yarns to weave pretty bits in!