Cornish Mining History Photos

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    The main square in town …in the Main Street

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    Bottom part of storm water catchment … Near my home

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    More of the town square …if you look closely you will see a bronze statue of two wombats …That’s because …….wombats were the first to discover copper in the area :):)

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    OK I’ve just got back from our 3.5 km walk down the beach one way ,we took a back street coming home it’s so windy and walking into the wind is like being a sandblasting machine
    This is just further up the hill from the old pumping station ( see remains of station on left ) where the mines got thier water.
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    A couple of photos of one of the many caravan / cabin parks near me
    I looked up our towns population it’s 5.500 or there about …..it swells it approx 20.000 Christmas filling places like this
    over looking the beach
    This is walking distance from home , the cabins were built during lock down periods so were ready for the hoards of tourists to flock here ( and other places ) when restrictions were lifted
    it doesn't matter when we walk past this caravan / cabin park lots of the cabins seem to be occupied holiday times or not …

    The combined C / C park is council ( local goverment owned ) they bought the motel behind the park to build the cabins
    I’ve heard on the grapevine the cost is $450 a night 2 adults + 2 kids

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    You can just see the old motel on right of photo ( still operating ) that the local council bought to build the cabins

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    @Kate Ellery, I love your photos of Australia, by the way.
     
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    Thank you @Ken Anderson it’s always good to get a little feedback so I’m not boring members by posting the same area
    photos

    It’s where we walk , and I love water / green life ….think it comes from growing up in desert like conditions in NSW .

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    It's not just that the scenes are of an area and a country I will likely never see, but that they are also very good photos.
     
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    They are taken with my phone :):) Ken

    IPhone 12 , hubs has a iPhone 12 Pro it has a better camera , altho he didn’t buy it especially for the camera he wanted to better one so he could connect his hearing aids to the phone

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    I have an iPhone 12 Pro, but I think that great photos have to do with more than the device.
     
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    I posted a close up photo of this part of the limestone cliff on page 2 …..this is what it looks like at a distance of about 1 km away
    ( today )
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