Exploring Waanyarra | Victoria's Golden Triangle
Today I'm going to show you one of the most interesting places in Victoria's golden triangle.
I'm here at Waanyarra near Dunolly, which is a brilliant destination for free camping, bushwalking, cycling, and gold prospecting.
Waanyarra was once a gold mining township, of which little trace remains today - but an attentive walk through the bushland of the area can reveal many clues to the region's rich history.
So let's head out and take a look around!
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Explore the Victorian Goldfields - www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/
Historical Gold Maps and Prints - historicalgoldmaps.com.au/pro...
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Dunolly Museum website - dunollymuseumsite.wordpress.com/
Waanyarra Walking Track - www.ffm.vic.gov.au/__data/ass...
Waanyarra Cycle Track - www.alltrails.com/trail/austr...
Newspaper article about double murder - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
Historical images - State Library Victoria and National Library Australia
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Wonderful history, with terrific presentation . Thank you . All the best in 24.
Another ripping yarn. Well told and well bloody done.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Rory 🙂⚒
Graves everywhere across the digging. We marked a lot of the them in the game ingress.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Ohh I’m intrigued!
Hi Michelle...Michael was my great great grandfather...you obviously did your research into his story...well done...did you read about his daughter dying after she was burned from a candle....very sad story..keep your stories coming...very interesting 😊
Loving the videos. If your in Ballarat again yell out!
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks mate 🙂👌
Just brilliant. Very interesting and well narrated.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂
Truly love the history you share with us all. Thank you
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂⚒🌿
Thankyou.
A great insight, thank you for your ongoing hard work for these informative videos.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Darren! 🙂⚒
Great video thanks! I have visited Waanyarra, but there are sites and information you have provided that I did not know about. Keep up the great work
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Melanie, glad you enjoyed the video 🙂🌿⚒
Amazing 👌 Another area that I've checked out for gold mineralisation & never bothered to look at the area's of historical significance 😮
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Some really cool places out there! 🙂⚒👌🌿
hi Michelle great work i have been their as well great are to see and rest
great stuff love your work
@goldfieldsguide
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! 🙂⚒
G'day, thanks for a very interesting and informative glimpse into the colourful history of much bypassed area of the Golden triangle, have camped around the area with the family many time and have attend a back too, as we had family who lived there a long time ago, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Neil, it’s such an interesting area 🙂⚒📸🌿
Great vid. Love that area. How on earth did you get that footage of the campground devoid of the usual untidiness of the permanent residents? I have never seen it look so welcoming.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂 There were about three or four campers set up there, nice and quiet 🙂👌🌿
@IanBrodie-bg1lu
7 ай бұрын
One of the permanent residents died about 12 months ago,He was known only by the name of Fish,used to walk from Waanyarra to Dunolly.We used to give him a ride to Maryborough,did his shopping and then walk back to Waanyarra,he was old,no idea how old,my guess in his 70's
I’m really enjoying your videos thanks I get to see all-our awesome gold places without leaving my couch and it’s good to see you in person on this video. Thanks for the knowledge that comes from your videos and the hope you keep making them.
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Daniel, that’s very kind 🙂 lots more videos to come!
@danielduivenvoorden9399
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide Thanks for the lovely message much appreciated. I look forward to more of your videos and it’s great to see someone else loves Victoria’s gold history as much as I do. If people knew the amazing history of Victoria’s gold era they would certainly be blown away as much as we are about this time in Victoria’s history. You are helping to make people see this and that deserves great respect so I hope you know this. That is why making your gold fields guide videos are so important. Keep it up because it’s well worth it. Thank you from Daniel Duivenvoorden.
It's so good to see a face behind the voice ❤ Looking great! Absolutely love your passion. Waanyara is known to produce the most purest gold in Vic at 98 - 99%
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Rob 😊 Seems to me that you are just as obsessed with goldfields history 😆🙂👌 Cheers!
@robshannon6637
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide You got that right! Live and breath the goldfields history and have a tonne of knowledge 😁 I'm keeping my eyes peeled hoping to see you out in the goldfields one day 😊😉
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
@@robshannon6637 haha, well if you do, come say hi 👌🙂⚒
@robshannon6637
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide mostly definitely will!! 😉😉 I'll be out camping in Talbot next week to do some prospecting.
parked opposite the cemetery one night while detecting, in the middle of the night 3 knocks on the side of my van, a ghost? perhaps?, or a tree branch 👻
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Spooky! It was the ghost of a 19th century sly grog merchant, bringing you a glass of “blow my skull off” 😆🍻
I swear that the old hotel had been ‘restored’ into better shape by a local community group but it looks fairly dilapidated in this video.
LOL Blow My Skull Off on special at Dan Murphy's
@goldfieldsguide
Жыл бұрын
Haha, gone are the days when you can get Turkish opium in your drink down the local pub 😆🍻
@nuggetella
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide Chinese had the best, Turks were bigger champions with hashish and a little blend of Afghan salt staining... 🤭
@nuggetella
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide BTW, a little nugget of secret prospector knowledge, where ever you find Chinese coins or memorabilia, the golden pickings decline... Best left overs are always on European abandoned diggings. Do enjoy your trips down memory lane, of where once Eureka didn't mean rainbow flags..!
@dataglasses
Жыл бұрын
@@goldfieldsguide Still not buying fruit beer!