THREE NIGHTS IN CHARTERS TOWERS

Charters Towers......  The only thing I could remember about it from Social Studies at primary school was that there are boarding schools there.  There was, so that vindicated my memory still works somewhat.  Funny the things you don't remember, like the fact that Charters Towers only exists because of the gold that was mined there from about the late 1800's.  Obviously that didn't resonate with me......

We arrived late in the day from the long trip from Moranbah.  The first day we went to Towers Hill, where gold was found and the goldrush started.  Towers Hill was also very important during WW2, there are many ruins of bunkers dotted all over the Hill, one of which we entered.  There was once a very tall chimney stack, but the Yanks insisted that it be blown up because it was too easy to see for the Japs!  The base is still there, Peter walked down to see it.  There was a very knowledgeable chap up there who told us a lot of facts.

Next day we went to Charters Towers Show, which was your typical country show.  Today we wished we hadn't, as we've run out of time to see more important things of interest.  Today I woke up very exhausted from the previous two busy days.  We had wanted to go to Undara Lava Tubes, but did not realise it was so far away.  That will have to wait for another day.

Tomorrow morning we take off to Townsville.  It will be nice to see the sea again.  We have a few things to do in Townsville as well as looking around.

Watch this space.............

Charters Towers Show Street Performers

Towers Hill view of Charters Towers

Towers Hill on top

View of Charters Towers from Towers Hill

From Towers Hill

Displays Towers Hill Lookout

Fireworks at the Show from my iPhone

Rotary Lookout Charters Towers

The story of the Venus Gold Battery

Inside Venus Gold Battery a mill for miners to take their ore for processing

Inside the Venus Gold Battery

At the end of the tour there was a projector sending pictures of the original mill owner.  The image was being projected onto two sheets of water squirting down.  You can see it in the middle of the photo.