Deep Creek Spring & Sailors Falls
Jumping ship
Sailors ‘jumping ship’ at Port Phillip Bay presented an enormous problem for ship owners in the gold rush years. Thousands took off inland - often entire crews with their captain. The lure of the gold fields was infinitely more attractive than poor wages, harsh conditions and hazardous voyages.
Sailors Creek
In his evidence to the Gold Reward hearings in 1864, the holder of the first gold diggers licence at Daylesford, F. Kawerau, told t
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