It's been a while since the last bulletin and as usual we have covered quite a bit of ground, as you can see we are now in Tasmania and have been for the past 2 weeks - one week to go before we head back to the mainland. Before the 11hr crossing to Tassie we crossed the bottom half of South Australia and Victoria, highlights being: Yorke Peninsula, SA... MOONTA, Australia's 'Little Cornwall'! because of the early copper miners who emigrated to the district who were of Cornish descent. Moonta mines produced 170,000 tonnes of copper, closure 1923. Very fascinating place to roam around especially for Mike, engine houses, school of mines, miners cottage, pioneers cemetry with Cornish folk etc.. a lot of the engineering of the mines, was constructed in Hayle and shipped out, but
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