THE facade at the Bealiba pub looks straight out of an 1850s gold-rush film. Wide verandahs and shady benches out the front hint of long-ago bustle, miners swilling beer and comparing yarns of lucrative finds. But when we visited the pub was deserted, the street empty and there was no sign of life.
We were in the middle of Victoria’s Goldfields countryside, a place rich with gold, where hundreds of hopeful miners once flocked with dreams of finding their fortune. Today this area is rich with open bushland to wander through with a gold detector, and there’s abundant gullies, creeks and dams to try your luck panning or sluicing. There’s also much more here than the prospect of what’s under the ground. Located within this golden triangle of Victoria are some…
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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2021