Blinman - Highest town in SA

Blinman is an old mining town & not much left these days. General store, mine tour office, coffee & gallery cafe + the Blinman hotel. We were lucky enough to be there on Friday night "PIZZA NITE", 2nd best pizza we have had in a country pub.

 

 

View of the surrounding countryside from top of the slag heap @ mine

 

Copper was found in the area 1859 by a one-legged shepherd called Robert "Peg Leg" Blinman. In the following decade Blinman boomed as hundreds of people flocked to the area to help remove thousands of tonnes of copper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mine tour office

 

 

 

General store

 

Wild lime cafe & gallery

 

 

 

"Rose cottage" 1870's miners house

 

 

Old "Lock Up"