Perhaps the strangest memorial in Australia is the Three Lost Children Walk, located on the outskirts of Daylesford, a historic gold-mining town 108km drive north-west of Melbourne, Victoria.
The 30km return walking trail follows the approximate route of three young boys who wandered from their homes in 1867 and perished in the bush.
The Graham brothers William, 6, and Thomas, 4, and their friend Alfred Burman, 5, went missing on Sunday 30 June. That morning, the three children left their homes in Connells Gully, Daylesford, crossing Wombat Creek in search of wild goats.
The boys didn't return. Concerned, their fathers and a group of neighbours spent the afternoon searching the junction of Wombat, Stony and Sailors creeks for the missing children. By evening, police had been notified and two constables dispatched. They combed Daylesford's surrounding bushland until about 1am then resumed their search at dawn.
This story is from the September - October 2022 edition of Australian Geographic Magazine.
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