Tyme on my hands

No really, I'm quite busy getting our exhibition organized we are sharing the cost and room with the local Art Society, which also mean some extra work.

Any way with the boss away I was wondering what todo today go with the walking group or take some photo's so as it was a perfect morning Sam and I went to Bannockburn, the place is covered in Thyme brought out by the miners, but I'm a little early the thyme not in flower just yet a good excuse to go back,

So history attached I hope you enjoy the read
The plans for the settlement began in 1862, as a result of miners being forced upstream from rising water levels in the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers. Though the area was settled around this period, the population was not stationary. As miners followed gold up the creeks, the settlements tended to follow, and by 1868 the original settlement had been strung out along what is now the Bannockburn-Nevis road.[1] As miners swept over the area, from 1862-1871 the face of the landscape underwent drastic changes as the alluvial flat was washed away by sluicing operations to the foreboding landscape that exists today. Water during this period was a pivotal resource, not just for mining but to supply the town as well. Evidence of the complex water system that once existed is spread throughout the landscape. Multiple dams, (technically reservoirs) feed a water system that extends from high on the nearby Carrick range down to the abandoned sluicing sites.[2] Tippet's Dam was one of, if not the largest of these reservoirs. The water has since been redirected for horticultural and viticultural use and the sluicings rest dormant on land belonging to the Department of Conservation.

Vineyards have now sprung up here and also orchards well worth a visit