Moving to the North of the South Island

Following our foggy journey up the coast, we stopped at Lyell, a former gold mining town, which has completely disappeared. Kathy and I knew that we had been missing some equipment at Goldsborough so we walked the hour and a half to see some equipment left behind at the end of 1800s. Naturally I could see at a glance that I could not carry this quartz crushing machinery - or gold stamper to give it its correct name. The noise from this awesome machine must have been hideous and they did not even find much gold here.