Ginger and Ed's Excellent Adventures

Zeehan was a mining hub and home to the Zeehan School of Mines for a few decades. There is still a large heritage center with excellent mineral displays.

Crocoite, a lead chromate, is one of the minerals the locality is famous for.

Other minerals mined.in the area include gold, osmiridiun, and copper.

Copper was mined and smelted in Queenstown f I r nearly a hundred years. The sulphur dioxide from smelting combined with high rainfall to acidity the soil, which had largely been cleared for mone and townsite development. The result is a landscape that still struggles to recover decades later.

There are a number of good short walks between Queenstown and Lake St. Clair.

We took a few walks, including a waterfall and along the Franklin River headwaters. A dam planned on the Franklin in 1970s threatened to flood a vast area of wild river. There were mass protests along the river and they were eventually successful. The work of art below was designed to honor the protesters who saved the Franklin.

We passed through high button grass plains to camp by Lake King William.