Camped at Dogleg Crossing on the Palmer River on the edge of the Palmer River Mining Reserve.

Dogleg Crossing.

This is the remains of the bakers oven in the Main Street. There is not much left of Maytown but it was still worth a poke around. The preservation society has cleared most of the paving stones of the gutters down both sides of the main street and installed labels marking the store and hotel locations.

Palmer River Crossing at Maytown.

Three boilers used to power the stamp and winding equipment at the Queen of the North Mine.

Reading the signage while a lot of alluvial gold was taken in the field none of the deep reef mines were a real success and most didn't recover the costs mining equipment.

The bowls were a new means of grinding the ore into and even finer consistency to allow the gold to be amalgamated with mercury.

The best preserved stamp battery in North Queensland.

Clifford was there.

The stampers crushing the ore.

While some of the mine shafts have collapsed a lot are still open. At the popular sites they do have signage and a barbed wire fence.