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.
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...
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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