Day 14 – 18, Easter 2013 Tarnagulla, Vic I wake several times during the night with a very cold nose. The morning is cool and we all front up for bacon and eggs in the kitchen. There are a few … Continue reading Easter in Tarnagulla
Not far from Castlemaine’s Forest Creek Diggings is the Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery. There can be no more stark a reminder of how difficult life would have been for a gold mining family in the nineteenth century than this stark … Continue reading Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery
How cold is it? Maybe 1 or 2 degrees. The bush is still wrapped in a foggy shroud. Mist hangs on paddocks. Mirror reflections on dams. Cobwebs drape bushes like he finest of crocheted doilies. Miners tracks weave through the … Continue reading A Foggy Morning
I was writing a piece on the high incidence of gold discovery in Australian towns when friends invited us to visit the Tarnagulla Strictly Vintage Fair. I was keen to take part in the celebrations as this is such an interesting and lesser known town in the Victorian Goldfields. Our mate ‘R’ who was born and bred in Tarnagulla organised dinner at the only pub, The Golden Age, for a few mates who are Old Tarnagullans and who now all live in Melbourne, though some like ‘R’ have smallholdings in the goldfields. …The front bar is crowded and a guitarist … Continue reading A Dinner Worth its Weight in Gold
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