Merritt to Golden - Part 1

Jane Reporting for 17th September

Only photos from yesterday (17th September) only for the moment.  If the rain carries on I should have time to catch up on a lot of these entries.

On our drive we stopped off at the 3 Valley Gap Heritage Ghost Town and spent an hour or so there.  It's a complex made up of a resort as well as the historic town in Eagle Pass.

The historic buildings have been relocated to the town from a 200km radius and set up as a town, with displays in the buildings, including vintage cars, as well as and specialist buildings for a rail display.

The stained glass was one of a number of matching panels in what I think was a village store.  (Generally I take a photo of the information board immediately before or after my photos, but in this case I didn't.)

Stained glass

There was a covered bridge and at the far end of it I found this little yellow creeper making its way inside.

Little yellow creeping plant

Even before I've got back to enlarge this entry to its proper size I've had a message from our former neighbours, Gary and Mabel, who say:

Tell Jane that little yellow plant was a Tropaeolum, commonly known as nasturtium, is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants. It was named by Carl Linnaeus and is the only genus in the family Tropaeolaceae.

And then we were into the vintage car display:

1914 Model T Touring

 One of the buildings (the White Lake House) had square log, double-hook corner joints that really impressed me.  It was built in 1906 and moved to the site in 1980.

Double-hook corner joints

Every now and then I would catch up with Geoff and Lyn or Gary and here are Geoff and Lyn heading back through the covered bridge:

Geoff and Lyn and the covered bridge

The round house which housed the rail display was an awesome building and sounded fairly impressive with the rain pounding onto the roof.

Roof of the round house

Trains in the round house

More catch ups with the others:

Gary at the saloon door

One of my favourite buildings in the town was St Stephen's church which was built in 1886 and moved to the historic town site in 1965.  It was a beautiful building but it was difficult to see inside because there were security gates just inside the doors.

St Stephen's church with Lyn in the doorway