2late yeah touga rings a bell,on some maps there was a cuppla old prospects marked,i got close but never found any old spots etc,most tracks were overgrown and not used anymore.
Your jolting my memory,i dont think it was the rolfes but someone had a big block all down that touga area i think,it wasnt tolwongs im sure,i was probably 13-14 the first time i went out with dad,wed camp in the old cattlemans hut about 3/4 of the way in,allways took a big bag of snags and some of the latests papers into ron and harold then go camp at the hut for 2-3 days usually.
I met a bloke at nerriga a few times 10-12 yrs ago and he actually had 20 or 30 acres to the left after tolwongs gate and he spent years out there on an off and knew the crisps very well,think he had a little mill and mucked about with a bit of timber out there mainly.
I thought the parks owned the old station now to?
It would be @ 17 yrs ago i went back out there lookin about with the detector a bit,never found anything but did a few full day hikes into the hills along the river,some spots ya couldnt stand still,just to steep.
We tried to get out to the old copper shows one day also,way out on the river,i cant recall the name of the area but the track was to overgrown after a few klms,theres a cuppla big stacks and all sorts of stuff still standing out there i beleive,in my research i found out there was old gold leases at that spot i think long before they mined it for copper,i was gonna go back out on one of my dirt bikes but started finding gold in other areas out there so never got around to it.
I came across another old report 2late back in them days that spoke of fresh diggings out that way on a range,they were getting nuggety gold up off a creek the biggest bit was 4 or 7 ozs,i searched tims gully area on the ridges thinking this was the area,found a few stray holes but dont beleive it was the area,the turn of the century report had directions but all in very early area names that history devoured,i found an old book with a real early map that gave me a starting point but very vague info,bugs me,i think this area is still out there to be found.Tabincula i think was mentioned. Or something like that.
So your neighbour was at touga?
Was there a homestead there in the early days?
She would of known the crisps quite well i gather,they say thats billis stomping grounds down the back of all this country on the river.....
