Launceston to Mole Creek
Mining history, natural history, rural scenes on the agenda today as we ride from Launceston along the Tamar Valley to Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, La Trobe, Sheffield to Mole Creek. First stop is at the Mine and Heritage museum in Beaconsfield. The most poignant and heart-grabbing exhibit is the mine rescue of Brant Webb and Todd Russell in 2006. The exhibit conveys the hope, the ingenuity and the courage of their rescue. The men were trapped 925m (3034feet) deep in the mine. As an symbol of the close knit community a group decided to knit a scarf 925m long after the rescue. Knitters from around the world contributed. The scarf is over 2km long. Next stop a chance to see platypus at Beauty Point. Platypuses A poem from my childhood. Banjo Patterson Far from the trouble and toil of town, Where the reed beds sweep and shiver, Look at a fragment of velvet brown - Old Man Platypus drifting down, Drifting along the...