Goldfields camp site at Broken Hills
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Goldfields camp site at Broken Hills - February 1999 We looked at a couple of undesirable camp sites at Athenre and Bowentown on the far too popular coast up towards Waihi and decided to drive straight on to a DOC site we already knew on the edge of the Coromandel at Broken Hills. Stunning scenery in the middle of the old Broken Hills and Golden Hill Goldfields on the banks of the Tiarua river. It was almost deserted and we had a whole area to ourselves. We did a number of the shorter Goldfield walks the following morning. There was drizzle and occasional hard rain so in the end we packed up and stayed in a cabin at Dicksons camp site just north of Thames - economical and the well placed for us to go round Thames the following day.



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