> I should mention that I have a somewhat lucky advantage over of all of
> you in the old Country {UK}. For you see as South Australia is a vast
> desert like state, but with many lovely green places, it is still possible
> to explore a rough bush track and in a matter of a few hours explore a old
> mine-site c/w horse-whim, then down the same track come across an old well
> on a pastoral station, some of these are little museum's, evolving from
> the windlass to the whip then the whim and now the windmill.
Lucky indeed - like having the whole of the Peak District to yourself! The
nearest I've ever got (quite recently) was a morning being shown around the
remains on Sark by David Synnott - local resident and de facto "keeper" of
Sark's Hope mine.
Regards, Howard.
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