20ChTowersPan02.JPG=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
22Clermont9.jpg=Clermont town centre
19ChTowers8.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre, Miner's Cottage
DSC_0057.JPG=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
19ChTowers16.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre intersection of Gill and Mosman St - City Hall, built in 1891 originally housed the Queensland National Bank.
19ChTowers21.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre Assay office museum
DSC_0053.JPG=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
19ChTowers28.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre
DSC_0026.JPG=Clermont town centre
22Clermont2.jpg=Clermont at our stopover
20ChTowers8.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
19ChTowers18.jpg=Charters Towers -  Stock Exchange (1888)
DSC_0025a.JPG=Clermont Post Office (for sale)
20ChTowers11.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
DSC_0001.JPG=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill under which much of the gold mining took place
DSC_0023a.JPG=Clermont Coal museum
19ChTowers20.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre Assay office museum
22Clermont1.jpg=Clermont at our stopover - the Galah looks a bit left out
22Clermont.jpg=Clermont at our stopover
20ChTowers4.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
20ChTowers15.jpg=A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores.
DSC_0002.JPG=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
22Clermont7.jpg=Clermont town centre
19ChTowers3.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
DSC_0092.JPG=Charters Towers - Telephone Exchange
19ChTowers11.jpg=Charters Towers - Post and Telegraph office building (1892). The clock tower was added in 1898
21Clermont4.jpg=Belyando River
19ChTowers19.jpg=Charters Towers -  Stock Exchange
DSC_0023.JPG=Charters Towers
20ChTowers1.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill chlorination works remains
21Clermont8.jpg=and the beetle's under side is bright red
19ChTowers15.jpg=A close up under the awning reveals Target’s shop-front with art-deco glass decoration forming a frieze along the top of the window.
19ChTowers12.jpg=Charters Towers - Post and Telegraph office building (1892)
22Clermont8.jpg=Clermont town centre
DSC_0023b.JPG=Clermont at our stopover
20ChTowersPan01.JPG=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
DSC_0017.JPG=Clermont Coal mine tailings
22Clermont4.jpg=Clermont railway station telegraph insulators
20ChTowers7.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery (in what was originally known as the town of Millchester)
20ChTowers12.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery safe for storing mercury
19ChTowers4.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) an area covered in termite mounds approaching Charters Towers
21Clermont3.jpg=Belyando Crossing -  on the Gregory Development Road
19ChTowersPan01.JPG=Charters Towers -  town centre mural on the side wall of the Titley building
DSC_0043.JPG=Charters Towers -  town centre
22Clermont6.jpg=Clermont town centre
DSC_0034.JPG=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery is claimed to be the largest surviving battery relic in Australia
DSC_0007crop.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
19ChTowers2.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
20ChTowers9.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery weighbridge
19ChTowers13.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre
20ChTowers6.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill disused mine shafts
DSC_0013.JPG=Clermont - a lovely old home, but too many windows to clean
DSC_0015V.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill chlorination works remains
19ChTowers24.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre where a more modest building now houses cute boutiques with classic Australian bull-nosed corrugated awnings and curved glass shop front
19ChTowers22.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre Assay office museum
DSC_0078.JPG=Charters Towers -  town centre Assay office
19ChTowers14.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre, DS&Co, is now a Target store
DSC_0080.JPG=Charters Towers -  town centre
22Clermont3.jpg=Clermont railway station
20ChTowers2.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
20ChTowers10.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
21Clermont6.jpg=Clermont Coal mine tailings
21Clermont.jpg=After Charters Towers - more cattle on the Gregory Development Road
20ChTowers3.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill
19ChTowers1.jpg=Wedge Tailed Eagle (page 152)
21Clermont7.jpg=A brightly coloured Harlequin beetle at the Clermont caravan park
19ChTowers29.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre, Australian Bank of Commerce was built in 1891 but ceased to house the bank in 1931.
DSC_0066.JPG=Charters Towers - ambulance centre and museum
21Clermont5.jpg=Approaching Clermont and another one of many abandoned casualties
DSC_0033.JPG=Charters Towers -  Excelsior Library previously the Excelsior Hotel
19ChTowers7.jpg=Charters Towers - where the most elegant buildings were the banks and government
19ChTowers9.jpg=Charters Towers - where the most elegant buildings were the banks and government
19ChTowers6.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
19ChTowers25.jpg=Charters Towers - The Royal Private Hotel
20ChTowers13.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery
19ChTowers27.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre
DSC_0067.JPG=Charters Towers
19ChTowers10.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre
DSC_0024.JPG=Clermont
19ChTowers23.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre Assay office museum
20ChTowers.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill chlorination works remains
21Clermont2.jpg=After Charters Towers -  on the Gregory Development Road at Belyando Crossing
20ChTowers5.jpg=Charters Towers -  Towers Hill, WWII ammunition bunkers
22ClermontPan01.JPG=Clermont local activity murals
19ChTowers17.jpg=Charters Towers -  town centre intersection of Gill and Mosman St.
DSC_0015.JPG=Clermont local activity murals
22Clermont5.jpg=Clermont local activity murals
21Clermont9.jpg=Commercial Hotel, Clermont
21Clermont1.jpg=After Charters Towers - more cattle on the Gregory Development Road
DSC_0083.JPG=Charters Towers - The Royal Private Hotel is a classic with its cast iron lace-work framing the verandahs.
20ChTowers14.jpg=Charters Towers -  the Venus Gold Battery has a short " Ghosts" video which is very ingeniously projected onto a water shower stream
16Undara.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
19ChTowers5.jpg=Gregory Development Road (aka The Great Inland Way) approaching Charters Towers
