By rights that is all I should write about this town, however, it is approx 130 kms south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway.
The town was founded in the 1870s when Gold was discovered by chance at Towers Hill on Christmas Eve 1871 by a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy, Jupiter Mossman. Jupiter was with a small group of Prospectors including Hugh Mosman, James Fraser and George Clarke. Their horses had bolted after a flash of lightning & while Jupiter was searching for their horses he found both the horses and a nugget of gold in a creek at the base of Towers Hill
The weather always makes or breaks a destination & unfortunately we are encountering some wet, cold miserable days.
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| Gill Street |
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| Miner's Cottage in Deane St |
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| Stock Exchange Building - now used as an Arcade |
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| Post Office Clock Tower Building |
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| Lissner Park (hundreds of Bats hang from the trees in this Park) |
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| Jupiter Mossman - 12yr old Aboriginal Boy who discovered Gold |
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| one of the WWII Bunkers on Towers Hill |
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| Balfes Creek |
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| The Menagerie at Balfes Creek |
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| The Melia's |
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| Cheers - Balfes Creek Hotel/Motel |
Very sad news was received yesterday.... BEV Pollock (MELIA) passed away on Friday morning (22nd June 2012).
