Porteau Cove - Day 2 - Britannia Mine Museum

One of the "must see" places of our trip to Porteau Cove was the Britannia Mine Museum. We just so happened to be there on their busiest day of the year! We found out at the end of the day that there was a museum pass that people could use to Britannia Mine Museum only this one day... go figure! We just thought it was a crazy popular attraction with parking all down the streets etc!

Brody was absolutely amazed by this enormous dump truck! 

We ended up chopping the trip into 2 stints as Brody was in desperate need of his beauty sleep!

Meanwhile Ken and Melissa went hunting for sea life in the ocean...

Back at the mine we tried our hand at gold panning. Turned out we all really enjoyed it! Perhaps a new family hobby? 

I think Brody was pleased to see us all having so much fun playing in the water & sand with him! 

Melissa holding the beginnings of our pyrite treasure!

Didn't take long for Brody to get himself wet and dirty! (this was just the start - I didn't capture a photo of him at the very end - he was soaked!)

 

We all hopped aboard the train into the mine...

Brody faithfully held onto his hard hat...

We had a tour guide (a retired miner) who gave us a great presentation of how things were and are today in the mining industry. 

Back at the cabin Melissa sorted all the loot that we collected gold panning... (missing from the photo are 2 flakes of actual gold that yours truly found!)

After diner we went on a bike ride through the campsite to a part of the beach that we had spotted the previous day. I found this unique piece of driftwood...

Daddy and the kids enjoyed throwing rocks into the ocean...

A wholehearted two-thumbs-up!