Well, I intended to get this post up last month, but that didn’t happen—my baby sister was born on August…
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Adventures
Tripping: Punakaiki, July 2019
If there’s one place on the West Coast that has grabbed my heart for the beauty, it’s just about got…
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Tripping: The Nelson Post
The past few weeks have been busy with multiple trips to different places. I’ve been able to catch up with…
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What Will be Left? (An Abandoned Gold Mine Adventure)
Last Sunday, several people in our family had colds, so we had a family worship time together instead of meeting with our normal church group. Then, since we had an afternoon to spend together, we decided to go explore some new part of our local area. We finally settled on Waiuta, a town located north and east of us, what once was a gold mining town from 1905 to 1951, when the mine closed.
The first place we explored was the township area itself, around the first mineshaft to go in, the Blackwater shaft. There was a good-sized vein of gold-bearing quartz in this area, and apparently the operations were quite profitable while they lasted—they produced almost 750,000 ounces of gold altogether!