Enid and Conrad Kindrachuk walking up hill
Last night it began raining just about dark (8:30 p.m.) and it continued for much of the night. By morning there had been about 13 mm of rain, so the ground was quite damp. Enid and I went for a walk with Conrad through the old area south of the road. There are many old sites from when the area was mined in the 1860’s and later. You can see piles of tailings that have been sluiced for gold, and the occasional small mine shaft. There is a graveyard with several depressions in the ground where Chinese miners were buried (but no grave markers). Along the way we saw a wombat, which is a bit unusual in the daytime. We were able to get quite close before it dived into its hole.