Ghost Town; Ravenswood

From the Grass Hut Station we go to Ravenswood, just approx. 40 ks down the road and just like Charters Towers a former gold rush city but despite there is still an open cut gold mine, the town itself looks like a ghost town. Actually it's more an open air museum. We knew that we could camp on the show ground and for $ 14,-/night we had a nice spot with water and electricity.

We just had parked the car and caravan when we heard a voice calling : "hi Fred and Tammy, how are you"? And there we saw Val coming from behind their caravan. What a surprise! 

When we had settled down, Fred went to the toilet and came back with the message that you might find a Frog in the toilet. He had been doing what he had to do and when he flushed, a big frog appeared from under the brim and started fighting to survive this waterfall. Frog affair to be continued!

This is what you see when you drive into Ravenswood

We stayed a few days, it was lovely, nice weather and a lot to see.
I’m going to divide this Ravenswood stay in two because there are too many photo’s I want you to see for one time.

First we walked through the ruins of the town;

visited one of the two hotels left;

of course having a beer at the bar....

this is the second Hotel;

and just a stair from a disappeared hotel;

 

we looked at the post office which also has fuel…..

A sentence on the paper says; "I'm a very old Lady, please treat me with respect"  isn't that cute!

And last but no least, a little lovely church;

Have you all noticed the beautiful blue sky??

Coming back to you soon with part two of Ravenswood! See ya.

(It looks like Blogger has some problems or it is our location but the text seem to change all the time in size, I apologise for that and hope the problem will be solved soon)