It was bigger than the Doe house and had paint on both the roof and walls. I should have taken a closer look. I am not sure whether it is lathe and plaster or hessian interior walls.
After touring the town, we moved on to the cemetery. Not everyone lived for a long time in the early days. Often a family lost several members over only a few years. The most noticeable thing was that so many stones were illegible, a product of the wild, inclement weather on the west coast. Only a couple of inscriptions were clear and these were on headstones sheltered by huge trees overhanging the graves. We were looking out for snakes too. With long grass and broken concrete and marble lying in haphazard piles there were plenty of homes for reptiles. many of the graves here had iron railings around them, now rusting, bent and broken. was this to keep wild animals (tassis tigers) away or perhaps grazing cows.
We left in time. The weather was hot and sunny but overnight turned cold, wet and wild. It wouldn't have worried the miners so far underground but think of all those wives trying to get the washing done!
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