At the end of a 500km trip we reached our destination for the day, the opal mining town of Coober Pedy … the weirdest place I’ve ever visited. More on that tomorrow.
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 increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
This is cool .... I am very very much looking forward to seeing and reading the next posts.
ReplyDeleteThe colours in this one (and the framing) are great.
I hope you did the tour!
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I found it the down point of my tour. I think it was the concept of living below ground ...
ReplyDeleteI like the contrast of that bright blue sky and the orange dirt.
ReplyDeleteI always get Coober Pedy and Kalgoorlie mix up.
ReplyDeleteI love how those hills could be hundreds of metres high or as tiny as a little ant hill - with no other distinguishing features in the landscape it's impossible to tell the scale.
Cober Pedy and Kalgoorlie are easily distinguished. One starts with C and the other ...
ReplyDeletePete I did a tour not sure it is is the tour. I found it so odd that I felt a paid tour was order just to get my bearings.
ReplyDeleteLetty, have never been to Kalgoorlie to know if there is any similarity.
Martina and Megan this is one weird place so you will be seeing something different.