{"id":6694,"date":"2014-12-23T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2014-12-23T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:56:51","slug":"victorian-goldfields-with-the-the-olympus-om-d-e-m5-part-vi-tarnagulla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6694","title":{"rendered":"Victorian goldfields with the the Olympus OM-D E-M5 – part VI – Tarnagulla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage VI of my road trip takes us further north east a few kilometres from the lovely gold rush town of Dunolly to the much smaller gold rush town of Tarnagulla.<\/p>\n

This quaint little town is well worth a visit with its old buildings and cottages and seemingly on the verge of becoming a ghost town.<\/p>\n

These photos were taken with the wonderful Olympus OM-D E-M5<\/a> Micro Four Thirds<\/a> camera.<\/p>\n

Main street and former bank building (Olympus mZD 12mm f\/2 lens<\/a> at f\/3.2):<\/p>\n

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The old church with pink flamingos – unfortunately the church burnt down around 10 years ago and was sold into private hands.<\/p>\n

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Cottage window:<\/p>\n

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Heading north from Tarnagulla takes one through some pleasant pastoral regions with old farm cottages such as these:<\/p>\n

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Then tracking to the north-west towards Wedderburn, there is a very nice granite outcrop hill where Captain Melville, a bushranger of the gold rush days hid from the police – hence its name – Melville Caves – a great spot to explore and there is a camping site at the top of the hill as well as a picnic ground at the base – here is a shot from within Melville’s cave:<\/p>\n

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Heading back to Melbourne from Maryborough, you cross cairn Curran Reservoir and pass through Newstead before reaching Castlemaine, and on the way you will see sites such as these:<\/p>\n

Old farm gates with water pump (my version of solarisation in Lightroom):<\/p>\n

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Cairn Curran Reservoir with a low pressure weather system crossing Victoria bringing storms:<\/p>\n

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Stage VI of my road trip takes us further north east a few kilometres from the lovely gold rush town of Dunolly to the much smaller gold rush town of Tarnagulla. This quaint little town is well worth a visit with its old buildings and cottages and seemingly on the verge of becoming a ghost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[18,327,241,14,125],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-goldfields","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t