We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
That might depend on what ammumnition you use.
ReplyDeleteMy ammo -- Olympus E500.
ReplyDeleteHm, I do not understand this at all: who writes this in white paint on some rocks? He? Now this is quite exotic for my European mind ...
ReplyDeleteMartina, actually the rules on the official sign were "No stopping, no passing, no shooting". So the sign writer was just mirroring the thoughts of the "management".
ReplyDeleteCountry lads like to go out at night in trucks mounted with spotlights and shoot kangaroos, foxes and rabbits. Given that there are camp sites all along this river that would be extremely dangerous.
Australia has very strict gun laws so in general it is only farmers and the like that have them. Other than in the rural areas there is not a culture of gun ownership at all. No shooting signs only ever appear in rural areas.
Hm, but couldn't they have done a nice graffitti instead?
ReplyDeleteAnd I read "No sooting" which doesn't make any sense at all, ;-)
In Germany the gun laws are even more restrictive I suppose - so there are no opportunities for "No shooting" signs.