The drive is truly beautiful through lovely pagoda rock country but I haven't found a way of capturing the essence of this type of country so you are going to have to take my word for it.
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
I was in the area a couple of years ago. I only have one photo of the pagodas.
ReplyDeleteWhatever you might think it still looks great!
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I know what you mean. The rare photo that does justice to it is . . . well, rare.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet we continue trying.
Winam, that is a great shot of the pogodas. At Newnes you can get above them but on this particular drive we were at their feet looking up.
ReplyDeleteRed I will see what I can do ... a bit flat out at the moment.
Mary Ann, and it is such fun trying.
Pagoda rock country, a fine definition to what I see here and I truly like it.
ReplyDeleteVery rugged. A good photo.
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