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This is the track into Bannockburn Sluicings - an old gold mining area where they used water to wash the earth away in the search for gold.
The track wound up to the top of the cliffs...
...which is here, looking down to Cromwell in the distance.
We saw gold mining tunnels and caves where the miners lived.
This was a settlement called Stewart Town. There were some ruined houses and a big orchard with pear and other fruit trees, planted by the settlers.
The ruin here is the old blacksmith's forge, taken from inside a cave.
Since we forgot to take water we had to go and find the pub in Bannockburn and sit in the garden drinking cider
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