Monday, January 31, 2011

January 20, Day 636 Gowrie Park

We've spent the last 4 nights camped behind the Wee Georgie Wood Steam Railway at Tullah and day tripping to Queenstown, etc from there. It's still raining on and off so any hope of getting a good view from the lookouts was pretty slim.

Queenstown was very much the mining town I expected, I thought a little depressing too. Lots of for-sale signs and closed shops, the rain probably didn't help boost its spirits either.

Strahan, Zeehan and Rosebery also had empty shops and for-sale notices around. We tried to do our bit and supported the bakery economy at Queenstown and Rosebery, both had good vanilla slices but their pies weren't that great.