In the morning I checked out the surroundings and found there should be some ruins of an old gold rush town, including a chimney and some buildings. We had to continue a bit further on the track and to get there. The track was pretty good, although the mountain went town very steep next to the road. As I later said to Mo, when you look at a tree about 10 meter away and you see just the top of the tree, you have an idea of how steep the mountain is.
This area was well signed and the first thing we found was the old cemetery. The information sign showed a lot of information about the town and especially the more tragic deaths of the people living here. (I guess death by old age is not that juicy of a story). We also got a detailed map of the area at an information post.
After two more curves we could park in a deep hear pin. We first saw a few old chimneys that remained. The wooded houses where taken by forest fires.
After climbing a pretty steep patch we found an old boiler with a chimney and the well covered entrance off the mine.
There also was a bit longer track and according to the map there was more of the village on a track of about 2,5 km. We decided to take the walk and check it out.
The first few areas of interest was more or less an information sign telling that there had been a house or ore shoot or so, but then we found a mine entrance with an old tram track as they called it and later another boiler house.
Just before the boiler house I hear a little scream from Mo, a big snake had passed just in front of her, she had been able to make a picture. A black snake with a bit of a white stripe on the side, about 60 cm long.
The way back it started to get pretty warm as there was l less shadow and the sun started to get pretty high. Back at the car a drink was a good reward.
We first aimed the city of Sale and there we decided which camping place we would go next. The unpaved road was called the Walhalla track and when we saw the sign for the village of Walhalla I could not resist to visit it. It was a nice little village, but it was a bit to well maintained to really give an impression of the gold rush village it once was. We stopped at the local pub and had a drink, we where thursty, but now we can also say we had a drink in Walhalla.
When we got to Sale we figured 45 minutes was a bit short, but 3,5 hours was way to much. So we turned right towards another beach camp. The last 20 km was unpaved again and we where rewarded by a nice track by the sea with camping spot after a small dune row. There was a lot of wind though, but we found a place between the bushes. During the night the wind would go down anyway.
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