Rediscovering the Lost Hellyer Diggings After 150 Years
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2024
- The Hellyer River diggings are nestled along the banks of a remote river in North Western Tasmania. This important chapter in Tasmania’s rise out of a depression, into mineral wealth has been lost to time.
150 years ago, the hut sites, tracks and worksites of these courageous pioneers were prominent features in this newly explored wilderness. But as the Wild West was gradually opened up, newer tracks and larger discoveries soon cut off the diggings from the outside world. With-in a matter of years the richest claims were worked to their potential, then soon abandoned, and the once important network of tracks leading into the area became overgrown.
This, along with with geographical name changes has resulted in The locations of this treasure trove of history, remaininf a mystery for over 100 years, and it’s story has survived only as a collection of ancient newspaper articles - until now.
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Thanks so much to each and every one of you for tuning in throughout this year and sharing my best year yet on UA-cam! Looking forward to sharing heaps more adventures in the future. Happy holidays and see you all soon. Rob ❤
Thank you for putting out such incredible videos Rob. Much love to you, Erin, Scout and baby Parsons to be. From the Huon Valley x ❤ Best wishes
Rob, I love the music you use in your vids. Is it proprietary?
What a magnificent video Rob. Brilliantly researched and comprehensively presented in an excellent production. Your preparedness to share the history of your “backyard” is welcomed and appreciated by many. I wish you and your family a wonderfully joyous first Christmas at Robinsbrook Homestead and look forward to being invited along on your adventures next year.
Thank you for all your amazing stories about Tasmania.
You teach people more about our history than most schools
Curiosity is often defined as the desire to seek out and remain open to new experiences, and it is closely linked to the innate desire to acquire knowledge. Thank you, Rob Parsons, for another wonderful adventure, exploration, expedition, and escapade as we walk in the footsteps of the past. Bravo!
This is your best video so far, so professionally edited, brilliant work, well done, young fella.
Great video!! Keep ‘‘em coming!
Awesome video, Rob!! Hope this goes viral 💪
Merry Christmas Rob. I love watching all of your videos. This one is epic. Thank you. Cheers.
Best way to start my Sunday morning, thank you Rob.
that bike is Investment of the year, Thanks for another awesome video and history lesson Rob.
Another brilliant video. I love how you incorporate the history and the huge effort you go to. A blessed Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
I love joining you on your adventures Rob. The choice of music is perfect!
Thanks for the great content, worth all the km s,you have covered. Cheers mate. ❤
Great video. Epic.
Awesome stuff
What an amazing history walk/adventure, beats a day out at the shopping mall... Thanks for taking us along brother 👊🏽❤️
Simply brilliant😊
Before even viewing, I thank you Rob You always bring me homesickness, joy and a sense of home
Thank you for find our history & allowing us all to experience it via your hard efforts.
Thank you so much for the epic Adventure videos. 🙏💪💪🙏
Unreal effort goes into the these videos - and we appreciate it a lot. Thank you for sharing Tassie's history with us, Rob
Another epic Tassi adventure. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all in the Parsons tribe.
Thanks Rob for another great episode been watching your videos for a couple of months now love your enthusiasm in showing me so much of Tasmania history
HIGH YA ROB GREAT TO SEE YA....ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO,,,,HOPE YOU AND YOUR FAM HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS..WATCHING THIS SUNDAY 12:32 AM ...USA,,STAY SAFE
Awsome year rob,merry xmas to you&your family mate👌👍🎄🎄🎄
awesome documentary on the golden history of Tassie!!
love your work, LiDAR is pronounced Lie-Duh
Exiting expedition, looking forward to finish watching the end, wish you a merry Christmas, rgs Kim (watching from Copenhagen)
You bring to life what looks like wilderness and the life of men from many moons ago.
A feature length video!? Woo!
As per usual good quality show thanks Rob and merry Christmas
Awesome work once again, Rob. So much history. There are still plenty of "Kay's" in the Circular Head area.
Fantastic!! Love the adventures , merry Christmas rob&fam
Fantastic adventure, I used to be up for this.
Even now, I take the dog up small mountains in the winter! Just to see, and find old things.
I love it, but stick to beaches now (fear of snakes) for the dog 💙 thanks for taking us along. 👍🎄
Great video again. Keep them coming. Greetings from Saxony
Wonderful!!!
Hell yer!!! Great vid as always! 🙌🏼
So keen to get out and do some exploring like this! Gives me so much motivation 😁 love your videos man! Have a good holiday!
That was a great look at the early prospectors and explorers and the hardship they would have gone through just to get to these places .I've been to a few of the places not far from my home in the Yarra Valley to follow the trails of the old prospectors trying to get to Woods Point and some of the other gold fields in the mountains up that way it must been hard with Summer temps in the 30s and in the Winter it snows .
Awesome location and vid. Worth doing some detecting.
Love tasmania & i love your videos 🥰
Great video mate have a merry Xmas and a prosperous new year
Great vid Rob, hope to meet U one day
Great vid
Merry Christmas to you and your family Rob and a great 2025
Awesome
That small shaft may have been the shitter
Fab video
that was an epic day.
Great video, that hole might have been a toilet.
Another good explore.
Toothpaste tubes weren't invented until 1886 prior to that it was in jars , it would make sense that is was from the European explorers that headed down there that found the Chinese on the river, the shotgun shell cap was most likely from the same time zone.
Chinese do have a way of stripping everything bare when they leave, but gee they worked hard.
LiDAR is a great tool.
LOOK INTO GETTING A PEN POINTER ..THEY SALE THEM MOST TIME WITH METAL DETECTORS..CARRY IN POCKET..MITE HELP WHEN YOU TRAVEL LIKE THIS
salutations , quel périple historique , au milieu d une foret remplie d embuche merci du partage . bien le bonjour de franche comté
Love the exploring and the explanations. Thanks Rob 😂
Also you might run into a thyacine 😮
5500 views and 700 likes come on 😢well done Rob 🏆
3 man X £3 per wk in 1850s, the open cut mine was productive & would be worth test panning
My dads family immigrated from England in the 1800’s to Tasmania their family name is Kay, now I want to research the history and see if their is a connection
They most likely made 'nails' from wood splits. Or Linclon logged it to gether. Look at their home buildings.
Pretty sure that tooth paste tube is the same as what ive found metal detecting WW2 camp rubbish pits in the Perth hills...its Colgate amd the tubes are made of lead
you forgot your helmet again LOL
Are there any relatives of the Chinese that still live on Tasmania?
All ways brush your teeth before you go shooting in the morning 😮❤
Hello.
Sorry to ask questions mate but I have two, is that river any good for sniping? And what drone do you use? Thanks for the great videos Rob.
The shaft is probably the outhouse pit.
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@15:50 Thunder box ???
(a.k.a. for non-australians .... toilet)
Create historical FNW Tas. video. Hope you and your family and friends have a great Christmas festive season and New Year.
Great !... not Create
Interesting adventure, but not sure about the "dating" evidence.
Bottle not that antique, and zinc toothpaste and ointment tubes were in use into recent times.
Probably from more recent prospectors.
Hello Rob
Do you work full time looking for gold and discovering where oldtimers worked ?
Beautifully filmes, you Are good.
😊👍🇳🇴
Thanks
It's an out house, toilet 🚽🪠?? Time stamp 16:16
where is your stack hat
Great video and great adventure as always.
In my experience hunting Chinese camps they leave plenty behind that garden section could have been washed away by the river and maybe the camp was on higher ground a good reason to return.
Thanks for all the awesome videos and Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Evidence you found at Lee Hungs campsite wouldn't induce me to believe it was the actual site based on that evidence .
1. Bottle looked way to fresh and well made .
2. Pit looked way too clean of debris / flooding backfill to be over 100 years old .
3. toothpaste tubes were of the metal type into the 1980's .
4. firearms in that time were still predominately black powder ( cap and ball ) , the brass end of the shotgun shell would likely have been a cardboard / paper shell which was still available into the 1970's .
My guess is that someone has held camp down there around the 1960's -70's having a dig , no doubt could be the approx. location but i wouldn't base that on the evidence you found for sure .
Without rock solid time period evidence in the different sites can only speculate.
If they were making foundries to process metals you would surely find dropped / discarded nails etc used to build sluices and cradles as well as scorched / charred earth and slag ( which all should read on detector) where the foundries were .
There is no way in the world the Chinese diggers cleaned up every scrap of items they used and carried it out as evidenced by other digging sites all over the country .
will the person that goes there in 200 years see this video?
Moral of every one of these pioneer gold finds everywhere on the planet--keep QUIET about it fir gauds sakes.
It's weird to me that with all your focus on history, I can't remember you speaking of a place in Tasmania as if native people ever lived there. It's like they never existed in your telling of history or something. I would love to know more about the pre-colonization history, how native people where impacted, or locations where important events occurred.