Day 12 (106)

Overcast morning ☁️, sunny later in the day ⛅️ with high 33

🏃🏼12km run
🤸🏼Pilates, yoga session
🚶🏼‍♀️3km walk
🚶🏼6km hike

👍🏻 Hike to Adelong Falls Gold Mill Ruins
👎🏻 Weak coffee ☕️ and tasteless strawberry milkshake 🥤 - very disappointing 😔

We were woke early by noisy neighbours (locals) 📣 with dogs barking, engines idling and angle grinders running
So what do you do when that happens?
Get up and go for a run🏃🏼, well the Seagull does 😜

He headed to the Tumut State Forest to run trails within it and the Wereboldera State Conservation Area, a total of 12km and 666m elevation 🏃🏼- his message on finishing ‘that was brutal, but it didn’t kill me 💪🏻’

After our mornings exercise 🏃🏼🤸🏼, and the inevitable washing of our training gear, we set out to explore Adelong which is nestled on the bank of the Adelong Creek.

Gold was discovered in Adelong in 1852 and by 1876 it was the 3rd most productive gold field in the country ⛏️
The town has retained its character and walking along the Main Street it’s easy to spot its heritage past with its old store fronts and theatre.
We have fallen in love with a property currently for sale, it was once the Commercial Bank of Sydney (1882) and then a pharmacy, and we could see ourselves bringing new life to the old building 🤔

Stopped for drinks and a caramel slice -just for research purposes (rated 6/10), unfortunately the coffee ☕️ and milkshake🥤 were not that great 😔

Fuelled up we set off to hike the 6km (return) trail from town along the Adelong Creek, taking in part of the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail, to the Adelong Falls Gold Mill Ruins.
Wandering through the stone ruins and mining relics you get an appreciation for how reef ore was processed at the site, until operations were ceased in 1914.
Whilst there we spotted a few people in the water trying their luck gold panning.
It’s a beautiful location and the water looked very inviting, if only we had our bathers.

We loved our stay in Adelong 🥰, and if we had more time we would have moved on to camp at Jones Bridge and explore more of the trails and MTB tracks in the area, but (un)fortunately we have somewhere to be tomorrow so we need to pack up ready to head off…… until next time 😊Read more