Ravenswood - Mon 16th November

On our return travel from The Burdekin Falls Dam we turned off the road into the very small, but still active, mine  town of Ravenswood that is 40 km from Mingela and the Flinders Highway. Ravenswood is an historic gold and silver mining town complete with all the old mining relics and some of the old buildings still intact. We didn't stay over in Ravenswood but had a short walking tour of the central town area.

We parked the car and van at this convenient rest area in town and went for a foot tour.

The old Court House that is now a museum.

The Railway, one of two hotels in town.

The Imperial Hotel, the other pub.

The original Post Office is still in operation. The red phone box is for show only!

The Ambulance Station now used by the Flying Doctor who visits each month.

The central intersection of the town. The white steps once led into another pub, 'Browns Hotel', that unfortunately burned to the ground.

The larger building once had the dental clinic upstairs and a furniture shop on the ground floor.

I don't know what this building once was but now it is full of 'bric-a-brac'.

The sign near the door says, "gone for a cuppa, be back in a while"

The town hall, with an outdoor function area to the left.

At the Ford dealers, two trucks waiting for pre-delivery service!

Across the road, a lot more modern car dealer, an Austin A30, I believe.

There is an open pit gold mine here that ceased production about two years ago. Now the company is bringing ore from another operation 11 km to the north of town and processing that in the plant here. The waste material is being back filled into the old open pit.

This is the old open pit that has only been closed down in the past two years. You can clearly see that the company is now back filling the pit with waste material from another mine 11 km north of town. This look out point is gained by walking a very steep concrete path: 1:10 gradient.

I used the look out point at the mine to shoot a couple town panoramas, this is looking over the south end of town.

This is looking over the northern part of town. There is a lot of open space between buildings because many of the old buildings have been destroyed by fire or decay.