A cold grey morning in Clare

A short drive from Clare brings us to Burra – a visit to the cemetery to pay our respects to our Mill family ancestors.

Burra was a copper mining town that boomed in the 1850s supplying over 5% of the world’s copper at the time.

Miners’ cottages

The historic Unicorn Brewery – part of the do-it-yourself keyed tour of Burra (keys from the information centre).

In the maze of chambers under the Unicorn brewery where the products fermented.

There were many dark passageways.

Burra open cut mine

Stack or chimney to an engine house

Wild poppies growing near the mines

Engine houses were used to pump water out of the mines.

Malachite  – copper carbonate mineral

Some of the many stone buildings in Burra

Firewood Creek north of Burra – another family history site

Wind turbines on the Bald Range

Ruin used on the cover of Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust album

World’s End but not a zombie in sight

Just a bunch of galahs

Building at Worlds End

Laucke flour mill in Eudunda

Sheep at Tablelands south of Eudunda

The Tablelands road

Ruins at Tablelands

Old church on land donated to the Lutherans by a family ancestor

Site of the homestead once owned by family ancestors

Another Big Thing – Map the Miner in Kapunda. Map Kernow or the Son of Cornwall is 7 metres high commemorating local Cornish mining history in the town. The miners left Cornwall when they got shafted.

Seppeltsfield

A very old grape vine

Late drive into Adelaide. We stayed in the CBD and went for a late night walk.

The Malls Balls in Rundle Mall