Day 6
A leisurely start to the day although there was some confusion
with timing and the interpretation of the route. Anyway, an excellent breakfast
across the street at the Sundeck was followed by a
short drive out to the Montreal Goldfields.
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| Bermagui boat marina - some very nice boats are moored here. |
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| Breakfast at the Sundeck overlooking Bermagui marina |
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| A Cormorant takes in the morning sun. |
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| The Alvis line up at the Goldfields |
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| Volunteer Jack gives us a walking tour of the Goldfields. |
The Montreal Goldfield is an alluvial goldfield and is
unusual as it is one of only two alluvial goldfields in the southern hemisphere
which finishes in the sea.
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| The vegetation regeneration. |
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| Examining the mining pits which are approximately 12 meters deep. |
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| The group gathers for another talk. |
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| Maritta moves to the next stop! |
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| Full Alvis line up at the Golffields |
Most of the gold in the old river bed is about 12 metres underground
and was all retrieved by digging a shaft down and then tunnelling a short
distance along the old riverbed, before panning out the very fine particles of gold. These fields produced about 240Kg of
reported gold which was removed from the field in its 3 years of
operation, it is anticipated probably twice this figure was actually removed.
It is also believed that probably the same amount again is still in the ground but the
area is now government protected. Its probably not economical to remove it at the moment.
From here we took a short drive to Central Tilba for lunch
and a visit to the cheese factory.
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| A massive lunch in Central Tilba!! |
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| An uninvited passenger....local locust. |
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| An Orb spider weaves a web across the path in Bermagui. |
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| Quick running repairs back at the motel. |
We returned to Bermagui to visit the Blue Pool and then had
a restful afternoon ready for the long drive to Goulburn tomorrow.
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