Lucky Jim Mine

Uh oh!

Was not expecting to go through a treacherous driving route to get to this mine. The drive included an unpaved narrow road around bends off mountain sides... at times only wide enough for one car tho...

A Glimpse of Coastal Mining History

This is a beautiful, if mostly unimproved, mining site from about 100 years ago. The steam donkey and the shaft is really impressive. There are no interpretive signboards, but it's fun to wander aro...

The Lucky Rooster of Battle Creek.

So a new restaurant opened up in Battle Creek called the Lucky Rooster. Normally I don't go to a restaurant that just opened but on the second day of their opening my fiance and I decided to take a ch...

Astonishing!

Well, to get here by car you need to be brave really. The road got narrower then turned into a trail then a track between the trees. We stopped eventually and left the car in a small clearing as we di...

What life was like.....100 years ago

this is hard to rate....it basically is an old abandoned Gold mine....the shafts are gated over and there is some evidence of old mechanization around the adit entrance.....but nevertheless, its an in...