{"id":59,"date":"2017-07-11T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T08:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-07-11T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T08:15:26","slug":"arsenic-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/2017\/07\/11\/arsenic-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Bendigo today-Founded by Cornish miners and a major centre in the Goldfields of Victoria. Toured the aftermath landscapes with Leanne and Rob Lloyd, and a special tour of the Victoria Hill sites with local expert George Ellis-also responsible for creating public access to these old sites.<\/p>\n

The remnants of gold mining are quite subtle-you need to know where to look. Many of the ‘mullock heaps’-mountains of quartz waste-are sited in beautiful bush landscape-red eucalyptus trees (called ‘Ironbarks’ as they resemble rust), pepper trees-planted to stabilise the ground, and many other shrubs I’ve never seen before-all to the accompaniment of whooping alien birds !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In Bendigo today-Founded by Cornish miners and a major centre in the Goldfields of Victoria. Toured the aftermath landscapes with Leanne and Rob Lloyd, and a special tour of the Victoria Hill sites with local expert George Ellis-also responsible for creating public access to these old sites. The remnants of gold mining Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}