A Town embraced by Hills of Stark Haunting Beauty
Mural of the stark hills
Galley museum
Photographic collection tribute to history of the rugged West Coast of Tassie + collection of minerals & mining equipment, clocks, medallions & the list goes on
We spent about 2 hours wandering through all the rooms on both floors
Miners Siding, tribute to mining industry from this area
Railway station
As you can see by the weather, not a very pleasant day here today
The roller got bogged & they had to bring in the big guns to drag him out
Queenstown cold wet winters make turf sports ground unsuitable, consequently Queenstown has the only gravel-surfaced oval in OZ. Regular games of AFL & cricket are played here during summer & winter. Make "em tough in this part of the world" !!!!
Mural of a by-gone era
Streetscape, love the old awnings along the street, defintely keep you dry in this weather
Empire hotel built in 1901, a Tasmania icon with history dating back to the wealth of the mining industry at the turn of the century
Magnificent National Trust listed staircase, crafted from Tasmania Blackwood sourced from the Western Wilderness, forms the focal poinbt of the hotel
Last of the afternoon sun on the mountain
Figures in the station
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