Monday, 9 April 2007

Tuesday 9th April

Heavy rain AM, but warm sun this afternoon so we went swimming & played table tennis.
Yesterday afternoon we walked to an abandoned iron ore mine in the hills about 3 miles behind the campsite. The buildings were extensive and all with collapsed roofs. Some of the cableway pylons were still standing showing the route the ore took to the coast, presumably for shipping away for smelting. The spoil heaps were still there, as were the tunnels into the mine workings. We didn’t venture in: we’d forgotten the torches and canaries. However, most interesting.

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