Long lost Lyell
June 11th 2007 We wound about two-thirds of the way down the twisty Buller Gorge to the old mining town of Lyell for the night, with Geoff reminiscing about the last time he came down this way on his bike after hiking in Nelson Lakes National Park. The geologist and explorer Julius Haast named the Lyell mountain range and creek in honour of an eminent English geologist Charles Lyell long before anybody lived th
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