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Interesting that old gold mining equipment can be a historically   significant attraction.  At some sites   sign posts are constructed describing what the equipment did.  The area around it maintained, with arrows   pointing where further pieces of historically significant litter can be   located.  Litter, at the time it was left   there, that’s what it was.  Equipment   discarded as the viable gold disappeared along with the miners and sometimes the   communities the gold supported.  Will the    CSG wells dotting our rural landscape be future historical attractions?  Or has mining lost the perceived charm of   yesteryear.  A charm that could see   fortunes made, lost, robbed or killed for.
Mount Britton, 65km west of Sarina and Ravenswood, an hour drive east   of Charters Towers are hardly up there with Dream or Sea World as tourist  attractions. Each however adds to the visitor’s perceived charm of the gold   mining in the late 1800’s.  Mount   Britton; population 0, buildings 3 (shed, lookout shelter and toilet); hardly   the infrastructure is the attraction, but the stories and pictures of the   school, picture studio, doctors surgery and the pubs scattered across the site   that once was home to 1500 inhabitants is a shiny lure for the more adventure   seeking tourist. At Ravenswood the infrastructure is the initial   attraction.  The township is listed by   the National Trust.  Two beautiful hotels   remain out of the 48 that once quenched 5000 throats.  Chimney stacks, mullock heaps, the school   swimming pool are brilliant camera fodder, however it is the stories on the   signposts beside them that engages the visitor, keeping some a few days in the   free campground at the showgrounds, or bedding with the ghosts at the   hotels.  Could more be done with the old   gold fields around Rockhampton; Canoona, Bouldercombe, Morinish, Rosewood,   Ridgelands, Mt. Chalmers and of course Mount Morgan to attract the more   adventure seeking tourist.  Drive along   the western highways and you’ll see them towing a camper trailer or 4WD   caravan.  The Cape, Uluru, Winton’s   dinosaurs footprints, Undara Lava Tubes are typical destinations.  For these tourists it’s the journey that’s   just as important.  To see, experience   different things, and engage with the stories and characters.  Maybe as we wait for Great Keppel Island to   once again become a major tourist attraction, we should do more with less, our   less known sites of interest.
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