Visit to Radium Hill

Good morning Tikalina station. 

It's been around 49 degrees for the last couple of days, making the ride up pretty uncomfortable at times. Last night a cool change came through so we got a great night sleep in the shearers quarters. 

After a great breakfast (thanks Andy!) Chris and I set off from the homestead out to Radium Hill. It's about 20kms on nice flowing tracks. 

Eventually we came to the old mining site. Almost everything above ground is now gone, but there are concrete footings everywhere, this place was HUGE!

Next we headed up to the old town. Again, pretty much everything above ground is now gone, but there are plaques everywhere explaining what used to be located where, usually accompanied by a photo showing how things used to look. 

Above is the site of the old drive in theatre. It's pretty incredible that there was ever a drive in here, 55 years ago this would have been like living on the moon. I still find it hard to believe 1200 people used to live all the way out here!!

There was even an Olympic size swimming pool. It was SUPER deep, this was necessary to ensure it didn't get to hot during the long hot summer.