Mineral Cycle Inspirational Journey

A narrow dirt road just a sleepy village Fryerstown, near Castlemaine, tapering to the track on foot. It 'a beautiful day, we walk along the trail, the sun shines across the green countryside dotted with daffodils in bloom and wattles.

We made a beautiful stone house next door. Bluestone Cellars are all that remains of the old inn, which served the thirsty miners walked this time engaged in track in 1850, when he was a mess of people in search of fortune.

Information Fryerstown, the countryside is dotted with holes and mounds that diggers who stripped the landscape bare of trees for their strong Quest for gold. Days have been turbulent. The areas around the city, is said to be home to about 15,000 people during the gold rush, was called to the murder of the pot, Grogshop Chokeum Gully and Flat.

Today is the Arcadia: birds singing through the gums, once twisted, poplars, fruit trees, while the flowers next to the ruined house sites.

The same song, which will take you to the mining town, once bustling Spring Gully, ticket to many historic mines quartz. Spring Gully mines in the region is still the ore-stamping battery, abandoned mines, and a huge pile Mullock view of a deep ravine, where a small stream gurgles in the middle of a quiet Bush.

The trail is part of the track Diggin dry, which extends 61 km from Daylesford to Castlemaine, passing many sites gold rush unchanged for decades: the rivers watering scars, floodplains, the ruins of quartz roasters, mines, cemeteries of loneliness and many a beautiful cottage along the way.

Track Dry excavation is one of three paths that combine form Goldfields Track, 210 miles of trail that winds through the gold rush in Ballarat and Bendigo. Others are 90 km Wallaby Track, which passes through the Mount Buninyong is Daylesford and Leanganook-track, 58 km route to connect Castlemaine and Bendigo.

Traces of the army of gold seekers who landed in the center of Victoria in 1850, Great Dividing Trail Trail Association was founded in 1992.

Gold gold mines track name and launched in May this year, the course revised and updated new features led the signaling messages and converts it into a fascinating journey into the past for walkers and cyclists.

The trail crosses the historic towns such as Goldfields Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Castlemaine - all with plenty of pit stops, cafes, restaurants, wineries and accommodation.

Shuttle cars or take trains and buses between inputs is generally a necessity that most people perform different parts of the track from 12 to 20 miles of walks and hikes. But there are those who are so enamored of central Victoria, they traverse the entire length of the track at a time, which may take two weeks off.

During its 210 km length of the Goldfields track through a drastic change of scenery, an iron box open woodland agricultural land, woodland and rugged gorges conducted peppered train, tram and old breeds of water, which once carried water in upstream dams to supply the gold mines, producing a fortune.

Around Castlemaine, Castlemaine National Heritage Park strip runs excavations, which covers the area north of Chewton and Fryerstown and Vaughan Springs, all filled with historical artifacts.

Near Chewton is the cornerstone of the Garfield water wheel, a wheel 22 feet high, built in 1887 to run a battery of quartz-crushing. Much to the Eureka Reef, south of Castlemaine, the basis of several batteries and is suggestive of a village. Vaughan Mineral Springs near reserve was declared in 1878. On Loddon River, this quiet oasis shaded silver poplars surrounded by fragrant eucalyptus bush a nice place to picnic or camping.

The top of a hill just outside the reserve, the trail passes a small cemetery known as the Chinese cemetery, because of the many Chinese miners who flock to the region in 1850 and was buried there.

Dozens of cemeteries across the Goldfields reveals the hard life of miners and their families, including the Penny Weight dish just Castlemaine Cemetery. Located on the opinions rise of one of the richest alluvial Gold Fields in the region, is the final resting place for more than 200 people - many of them children - buried between 1852 and 1857.

QUICK FACTS

Goldfields Track is well served by public transport with regular trains to Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine and bus to the main towns of the track.