We headed north through more incredibly green farming country with soft rolling hills. Just outside Burra the hills are topped with wind turbines … Australia’s largest wind farm. I counted 30 of them.
Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
The top photo reminds me of the American Great Plains. Lovely shot.
ReplyDeleteGreat greens on the top shot!
ReplyDeletethis is such a soothing couple of shots ..rich green
ReplyDeleteNot sure how I feel about wind farms. I appreciate the energy they create and realise that my great-grandchildren will regard them as normal. However, they do blight the landscape.
ReplyDeleteI like them. They make the landscape interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe hills were yellow with ready to harves wheat when we were there. There are 170 turbines.
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