Taking a rest day in Norseman. A small town named after its founder, a Scotsman who considered himself to be a Norse man, he even name his horse Norseman.
So today we are tourists. We started off with a bar b q in the town park. However, it turned out to be a disaster when we mistakenly purchased horrible vegan burgers
One crisp winters night in 1894 prospector Laurie Sinclair tethered his horse to a tree outside his brothers tent. Legend has it that in the morning he found his horse lame. On inspecting it found a sizable chunk o gold-bearing Quartz stuck in its hoof. This led to a gold rush with people flicking from Dundas and surrounding areas, and the birth of the town.
Two years later there were five English and twenty-five Australian companies at work processing gold through two batteries. The yield that year was 4,271 ounces
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