A few good relics
One of the things I love about Otago is its history. We’ve explored aspects of this in more detail on previous trips including mining remains and the rail trail. On this trip we only had time to revisit a few favourite places. This is a bit of a random assortment of some of the old stuff we came across. And no I don’t mean us…
Some of the backyard at the Cardrona Hotel
Walking through spectacular landscape created by gold sluicing
Remains of a building in Cromwell that was demolished prior to the flooding of Lake Dunstan
Demolished remains of a primary school on the shores of Lake Dunstan
Suspension bridge on the road into Ophir
Ophir has many original buildings from its days as a mining town
The old railway line was ripped up for the Central Otago Rail Trail - this is a section through the Ida Valley
The famous green Wedderburn railway goods shed with adjacent station and ticketing office
The Moeraki boulders, relics of a kind on the Otago coast
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Ahhh – brings back memories of our rushed trip through there about a year ago. A different world to here, where we are.