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On the way back from Canberra recently, we made a short detour to the old gold mining town of Hill End.

Hill End and Sofala were pretty much where the Australian gold rushes began; then came Victoria (Bendigo and Ballarat) and WA (Kalgoorlie).

A great deal of the old town has passed into history with only a few buildings remaining. However, what is left was well worth the visit. It is difficult to capture the town in all its glory with just a few photographs....drones do a good job of that; but we took a few to get a flavour of it.

One of the photos to follow is of the Holterman nugget: a huge chunk of gold. It was a sort of mixture of gold, quartz and shale. Today, the three thousand ounces that was separated from the main chunck would be worth around $ AUD18,000,000.

I remember reading somewhere that the largest nuggets of gold ever discovered were found in Australia. Another huge nugget was found in the Victorian goldfields in the 1800's as well; it was called the Welcome Stranger. The "Welcome Stranger" discovered on February 5, 1869, by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates in Victoria. While digging around the roots of a stringybark tree Deason discovered the nugget lying only 3 cm below the surface. it is historically celebrated as the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found on Earth. It lay just inches below the surface, and because of its immense size and weight—roughly 72 kilograms (159 pounds) of pure gold—it had to be transported into town using a cart/wagon, giving rise to the famous story of it being hidden and hauled away after a horse and wagon became bogged down. It's value today would be about AUD$14,000,000. It had been sitting, no more than a few inches, under the ground for millennia. More here and another similar find here


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Hello Richard, but mostly Vanessa, You always look amazing. Richard takes the best photos to show off your body's natural beauty and your pretty face. I loved see all the pics at the Villa together. OMG such a turn on! Thank you so much for having those grouped togetehr :)
 
Hello Richard, but mostly Vanessa, You always look amazing. Richard takes the best photos to show off your body's natural beauty and your pretty face. I loved see all the pics at the Villa together. OMG such a turn on! Thank you so much for having those grouped togetehr :)

Glad you're enjoying them 👍
 
On the way back from Canberra recently, we made a short detour to the old gold mining town of Hill End.

Hill End and Sofala were pretty much where the Australian gold rushes began; then came Victoria (Bendigo and Ballarat) and WA (Kalgoorlie).

A great deal of the old town has passed into history with only a few buildings remaining. However, what is left was well worth the visit. It is difficult to capture the town in all its glory with just a few photographs....drones do a good job of that; but we took a few to get a flavour of it.

One of the photos to follow is of the Holterman nugget: a huge chunk of gold. It was a sort of mixture of gold, quartz and shale. Today, the three thousand ounces that was separated from the main chunck would be worth around $ AUD18,000,000.

I remember reading somewhere that the largest nuggets of gold ever discovered were found in Australia. Another huge nugget was found in the Victorian goldfields in the 1800's as well; it was called the Welcome Stranger. The "Welcome Stranger" discovered on February 5, 1869, by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates in Victoria. While digging around the roots of a stringybark tree Deason discovered the nugget lying only 3 cm below the surface. it is historically celebrated as the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found on Earth. It lay just inches below the surface, and because of its immense size and weight—roughly 72 kilograms (159 pounds) of pure gold—it had to be transported into town using a cart/wagon, giving rise to the famous story of it being hidden and hauled away after a horse and wagon became bogged down. It's value today would be about AUD$14,000,000. It had been sitting, no more than a few inches, under the ground for millennia. More here and another similar find here


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Love reading your history write ups, plus a pic or two of V mixed in thanks for sharing
 
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hi richard and vanessa what make is the car looks like around 34


I think the car is the same as the one used by Kevin Costner in the movie 'The Highway men' Buzz. It's a Netflix film about Bonnie and Clyde. It's a Ford V8.

Somebody on here would probably know the model exactly.
Nice set of you and V and you have a lot of very old cars etc around the out back such a shame 🥰😉
 
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