Woods Creek, Greymouth, New Zealand
Woods Creek is an old gold mining settlement from the 19th century, south of Greymouth on the road into Shantytown, 22kms from the main road.
It is a nice track through the forest of about 45mins passing through tailraces, tunnels etc leftover from the goldmining days.
Really cool walkway that takes you back in time, the tunnels are really cool to explore, but remember to take a torch with you.
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Woods Creek Walkway, West Coast. 2.
A bush walk with tunnels, water races and fascinating gold workings.
Woods Creek Walkway is a 20 minutes drive from Greymouth out past Shantytown, this walk takes approximately 45 minutes and is a 1km loop track, but allow extra time for exploring.
Described as one of the most exciting short walks on the West Coast. This fascinating track passes by tail-races and dams and through tunnels built by gold miners in the 19th century.
Be sure to take a torch on this walk to explore the fascinating tunnels once used by gold miners.
In addition to the remnants of tunnels, races and walls of stacked stone you will pass through mature and regenerating forest.
Woods Creek Walkway, West Coast. 1.
A bush walk with tunnels, water races and fascinating gold workings.
Woods Creek Walkway is a 20 minutes drive from Greymouth out past Shantytown, this walk takes approximately 45 minutes and is a 1km loop track, but allow extra time for exploring.
Described as one of the most exciting short walks on the West Coast. This fascinating track passes by tail-races and dams and through tunnels built by gold miners in the 19th century.
Be sure to take a torch on this walk to explore the fascinating tunnels once used by gold miners.
In addition to the remnants of tunnels, races and walls of stacked stone you will pass through mature and regenerating forest.
Woods Creek Walkway and Swing Bridge. 3.
A bush walk with tunnels, water races and fascinating gold workings.
Woods Creek Walkway is a 20 minutes drive from Greymouth out past Shantytown, this walk takes approximately 45 minutes and is a 1km loop track, but allow extra time for exploring.
Described as one of the most exciting short walks on the West Coast. This fascinating track passes by tail-races and dams and through tunnels built by gold miners in the 19th century.
Be sure to take a torch on this walk to explore the fascinating tunnels once used by gold miners.
In addition to the remnants of tunnels, races and walls of stacked stone you will pass through mature and regenerating forest.
THE WEST COAST OF NEW ZEALAND - PT_2 - OUR HOLIDAY OVER THE EASTER BREAK 2009 - COAL CREEK FALLS
Our Holiday over the main divide - The West Coast of New Zealand - Beautiful Native Bushland every where - We made a point of doing the Coal Creek Track to see the Water Falls at the End of the Track.
This Walk takes about 40min each way depending on how often you stop - Native bush every where - Ferns & Punga's every where - Native birds singing in the Trees - The Trees are very big and high and are 100's of Years Old.
The Water Falls are spectacular and all this is just a few Minutes from where we were staying with our Cousins in Ranunga - About 10 Minutes Inland from Greymouth.
Woods Creek tunnels
This fascinating forest track passes by tailraces and dams and through tunnels built by gold miners in the 19th century.
Description
Be sure to take a torch on this walk to explore the fascinating tunnels once used by gold miners.
In addition to the remnants of tunnels, races and walls of stacked stone you will pass through mature and regenerating forest.
The walk can be covered in under 45 minutes but allow extra time for exploring. Sturdy walking footwear is recommended.
Getting there
Drive south from Greymouth on SH6 for 8 km to Paroa, and turn left onto the road towards Shantytown. Travel down this road for 22 km east, mostly on sealed road, past both Marsden and Dunganville.
The last part of the road currently passes through an active modern mining site. For safety reasons, obey the signs and stay in your car until you reach the Woods Creek car park.
Train Rides at Shantytown, New Zealand.
Train Rides at Shantytown
Shantytown contains a re-created 1.5 km(1500m) narrow-gauge bush tram line that follows a 19th-century Sawmill Tram Track from the Shantytown Infants Creek Station, via the Sawmill to an end of line Terminus, with viewing of the Engine.
Shantytown is a tourist attraction on the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Located 10 km south of Greymouth, the town was constructed and opened in the early 1970s and consists of 30 plus re-created historic buildings making up a 19th-century gold-mining town. The town is surrounded by native forest, and is one of the region's most popular attractions.
This L class is one of 10 built by for the New Zealand Railways. Subsequently sold to the Public Works Department in 1901 and renumbered 508, the locomotive worked on various construction projects in the North Island between 1903 and 1931.
L508 (Gertie)- Avonside Engine Company, Bristol, England. Makers # 1206/77 built 1877, 20 ton, 10.5 x 18 inch cylinders, 160lb BP, 36 inch wheels TE 7000 lb.
36min Virtual Run - Scenic Walkway in Orewa New Zealand
Howdy!
This is just a simple run in a nice beachy area called Orewa which is located on the north shore of Auckland, New Zealand.
This is my first run with my new camera setup which I intend to use during races, training's & long runs to provide smooth footage for you to view while using stationary exercise equipment such as a treadmill, elliptical, or bike.
This video is basically a test, so the quality will greatly improve in time while I work on my video editing skills. Please feel free to leave feedback for me as this will be extremely helpful for future uploads.
For example, I would like to know:
- How long you would ideally want a virtual training video to be?
- What kind of music you would prefer?
- Would you rather virtually train with other people, in groups, or on your own?
- What type exercise equipment do you use while viewing these kind of videos?
Thanks a lot team! I'm utterly passionate about this project, so can't thank you enough for your time.
Music taken from YouTube and Bensound:
nelson creek 008
the flying fox at Nelson Creek - West Coast, South Island:)
Westland Kart Club Greymouth Street Race Allan Giles interview
Allan Giles from Westland Kart Club talks about the demonstration laps at the Greymouth Motorcycle Street Race circuit. greymouthstreetrace.com
Gold Prospecting moonlight
At this location the second largest nugget ever discovered in New Zealand was turfed up in 1917 by prospectors who were re-working old tailings from the 1860's gold-rush to Moonlight Creek. The 87.5 ounce nugget was named the 'Victory'.
George Moonlight moved from the Victorian Goldfields (Australia) to New Zealand, then caught a steamer to the west coast of the South Island. George travelled from one gold rush to another, sometimes striking good gold, often not. His remains were found on the 16 September 1884 at Hope Bush (Cow Creek) having gone missing the year before on a lone prospecting trip, and is buried at the Nelson cemetery.
Gold was discovered at a site, about 40 kilometres north-east of Greymouth, by prospectors called Cabet (surname) and 'Panama Bill', in 1868. They decided to name the new goldfield after George Moonlight.
The creek and neighbouring terraces contained coarse dark nuggetty gold, sometimes impregnated with rose quartz (or rose tinted quartz). Many large nuggets have been found historically at the site. These include W.H. Jones 52 oz, George Fox 78 oz, William Coulter (known as Santa Anna) 47 oz, Mitchell and Russell (surnames) 79 oz, 60 oz, 40 oz, 2 x 33 oz, 22.50 oz and 20 oz, 'Flash' Barry (named after his spending spree in Melbourne from gold finds in the Victorian goldfields) 37 oz, Young and party several from 37 oz to 23 oz, Alfred Bliss 37 oz, Thomas Wood 36 oz, and much more that goes unrecorded.
Retired geologist Jock Braithwaite when interviewed in part about Moonlight Creek, gives a fine definition of a nugget: ' A nugget is if you drop it in the dish, and it goes ding'.
The site is well known amongst gold fossickers, lured by the romantic name, and the improbable promises of riches, from the many nuggets found here in the past. Gold prospecting requires a permit, but not in the seventeen public fossicking sites on the South Island (always check the Department of Mines website for the most up to date information). Prosecutions for mining without a permit do occur, as a property owner near the entrance of the Moonlight Road found in 2016. Non motorised fossicking is allowed, in designated fossicking sites, including panning dishes, and small scale sluicing.
The thought here is families will come, with children given the opportunity to pan for gold in the creek, finding a few specks, then going home happy having spent the day in the beautiful New Zealand outdoors. Not everyone
buys into this. Online forums note conflicts with people behaving badly, including a local rock club who arrived, and were threatened by a man clearing trees. Gold does funny things to people, and does not always bring out the best in human nature. Small nuggets have been reportedly found up to recent times.
The best time to go is spring and early summer, after the winter floods have potentially washed gold nuggets to the surface. The best time to go to avoid people is mid-winter, when there is knee deep mud, constant drizzling rain, and sub-zero temperatures.
The entrance road to Moonlight Creek can be found at a location called Atarau, on the main road on the northern side of the Grey River. Where the road turns sharply is a pull-out area with prominent 'Moonlight' sign, and minor gold mining equipment. The fossicking site is via a narrow gravel road heading north from here into the thickly forested hills for 10 kilometres (sometimes used by logging trucks), to a place now known as Anderson's Flat. The fossicking area covers 59 768 ha, beginning 1.32 kilometres above the bridge crossing. A gold location near Queenstown is also called Moonlight Creek.
Prospectors rushed to the site after the 1868 find, many described as 'hatters', a gold mining term for an elderly prospector having gone slightly mad in the head from gold fever. The focus was on a gutter running parallel to the creek, and disappearing into a terrace. Much tunnelling into the terrace failed to locate the gutter extension. There were reefs at Moonlight Creek, but it appears not enough for large company involvement. Several pegged claims, and a couple started work, but amounted to little. The creek was pegged by dredging companies with a similar result.
An 1875 report states by this stage many had left, with one store remaining. Coarse gold was also found at Caledonian Creek, 5 miles away: Baxter Creek for fine gold; and Garden Gully, all seeing small numbers of miners around the same time as the Moonlight Creek rush.
Long (like all day) difficult (steep, muddy, wet etc) but beautiful walks and mountain bike trails eg. Croesus Track,can be taken through the lush temperate rainforest to the Garden Gully site, containing swing bridges, a 1905 era stamp battery, mining relics, and tin gold miner huts.
South Island Robin at Coal Creek Falls.
South Island Robin at Coal Creek Falls. West Coast, NZ.
The New Zealand robin or toutouwai (Māori), (Petroica australis), is a sparrow-sized bird found only in New Zealand, where it has the status of a protected endemic species. The birds are sparsely distributed through the South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura, although the distribution is not continuous.
These birds are endemic to New Zealand, and while they are not technically a threatened species, they have suffered from habitat losses and predation by introduced species because of human interactions with the birds’ native environment. Conservation is therefore aimed at protecting what is left of the (Petroica australis) habitat, and reintroducing populations to areas where the introduced predators have been eradicated.
Coal Creek has an amazingly wide and beautiful waterfall, which is located roughly 15 minutes drive north from Greymouth.
Doug riding power station
Me riding the local dh track in greymouth
Driving Creek Railway | New Zealand's only narrow-gauge mountain railway
Shantytown, West Coast.
Shantytown is a tourist attraction in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Located 10 km south of Greymouth, the town was constructed and opened in the early 1970s and consists of 30 plus re-created historic buildings making up a 19th-century gold-mining town. The town is surrounded by native forest, and is one of the region's most popular attractions.
Shantytown also contains a re-created narrow-gauge bush tram line that follows a 19th-century sawmill tram track from the Shantytown train station to a stop at the Infants Creek Sawmill and a terminus.
Other attractions include having an old time photo in costume taken, a holographic theatre show, and a playground. Short bush walks around the area lead to a surveyors monument and lookout.
The town's inter-denominational church, built in 1866, can be booked for weddings, Shantytown offers a cafe and souvenir shop, and is open all year round with the exception of Christmas Day.
Coast Road Rail Bridge
West Coast in the rain and the Road Rail Bridge, New Zealand.
Fox Glacier New Zealand Helihike
Lake Matheson in Fox glacier New zealand
The famous mirror lake
Milton Offroad Adventure
Lil trail ride in the woods of Milton