Moonta, South Australia
Wed 07/05/14 Everyone up bright and early and dived into several hours of home schooling - boys in the annexe, girls in the van - went relatively smoothly. After some lunch we headed over to Moonta and took a ride on the tourist train through the old Copper Mining Fields. Very informative and interesting, with lots of info sheets for kids to collect for their journals. They were shocked to hear that 8 y/o boys were sent to work as "pickey boys" sorting rocks Mon ...