tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Araluen Valley

A very wide (180 degree) panorama of the Araluen Valley and its surrounds. When the bushrangers visited this area (see PiP/previous image), they retreated back into the hills in the centre. View large. HFF and have a great weekend. Explored.

Back in the 1860s, in the Araluen Valley, there was a little gold mining settlement called Mudmelong, somewhere near where the distant house is sited. On the night of 23 February 1866, the Clarke bushranger gang took over the hotel there. When the four local police tried to capture the bushrangers in the hotel, things went badly astray - and the bushrangers captured the police. Oops! (After the bushrangers left, the police were able to return home next day).

Here's the full view from Clarkes Lookout, down into the Araluen Valley where there were very productive alluvial goldfields in the 1860s. It's now farming country. Best viewed large