As we approached Yeoval I remembered there is something distinctly different about this town ... there are bicycles in the trees! It seems to be a wheely good tourist idea.
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
Wheely good idea or a wheely stupid idea?
ReplyDeleteIt gets worse Diane ... more to come.
ReplyDeleteNow, that's quite surprising! Love the sign.
ReplyDeleteJoan, thank you for the comment on 'in the wild', I appreciate it. The thing is keeping four blogs updated means spending too much time at the computer. Hope I will notice the difference having just two... :-)
Love it!
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