One of our group wanted to head up to Farina to see the ruins – why not -its only 150 kms away.
Farina is like any other ghost town in the Australian outback until you see the background to the town. It was originally called Government Gums in 1878 but called Farina later after the Latin word for “flour” as they had plans to grow wheat – what were they thinking.
This town was a major railhead with a couple of hotels, bank, police station, school, stores and hospital. At its peak there were 300 people living here.
We stopped at Leigh Creek on the way up, checking out the Drag Line, coal mine and Titan Truck.
Another stop on the way home was Talc Alf at Lyndhurst, even though Alf wasn’t around there was plenty of his work around.
At Copley, the group split up. Half took the bitumen and went through Beltana back to camp while the rest of us followed a line on the map. It would have been quicker if we could have found the end of the track onto the Warraweena track.
Took the chance to have a look at the ruins of the Sliding Rock Mine ruins – one of the many mine ruins in the Flinders Ranges, before heading back to Black Springs Campsite.
Cache for the day:
