Bendigo and Nyah

 

Bendigo

Wonderful Bendigo, A very interesting town with it’s enormous old wealth from the gold days, the kilometers of underground mine shafts, the beautiful architecture and of course the great fun we had at the Bendigo Pottery.

The mining history of the town is amazing, from the amount of gold taken, Bendigo has produced far more gold than Ballarat. There were hundreds of mines producing gold in the early 1900. The model to the left is typical of the mines operating.

The mine tour was spectacular, especially seeing how hard the rock is where these early miners used big spikes and sledge hammers trying to dislodge rock looking for that magical seam.

This is where we started



This is what we produced on the day







 

The Sacred Heart Catholic Church is perched high on the hill overlooking Bendigo along with many other churches of differentg denominations.

We took the historical tram tour around the city which was well worth while.



This is what was mailed to us

Trice and Graham

You have to make sure you meet up with Graham to have you lessons. We could have spent more time here but we did have to get to Mildura.

 

 











 

 

  

Nyah

 

Trice drove around 200klm and stopped at a free stay at Nyah right on the banks of the Murray River, very quiet and all by ourselves. We are starting to understand more about this river with it’s series of locks etc.