Sunday, May 15, 2011

Ghost towns.

Derby, once a busy tin-mining settlement, is a pleasant small town with a population of around 160. It has a general store, petrol station, a couple of hotels, coffee shop, gallery and police station. Ben phoned from there today where he was reading a newspaper and having Sunday brunch. Other towns, like Lottah for example, are more remote and haven't been as fortunate. Lottah is now a small cluster of houses and sheds while nearby there's a ghost town that doesn't appear on the touring map. It can only be reached via rough four-wheel drive tracks yet the Ducati can get there if driven very slowly and carefully. Ben's thinking of camping there, though you have to wonder about camping in a ghost town.

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