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
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
I'm following you Joan - Wonder what's around the corner?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't appeal to me (and I don't have an iphone) but people get some amazing results with those cameras.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot. Are you using the Blogger App?
ReplyDeleteI have used the App once and it was very easy but my photo was terrible!
I wanna come too. Iphones take good shots. Both my son in laws use nothing else and they take some great shots.
ReplyDeleteSome people do seem to get great shots with their iPhones maybe I will do better with practise.
ReplyDeleteMark, no I am not using the blogger app. I am not much of an app person. My iPhone is pretty much a phone, except when I have no other camera :-)
I've forgotten where we are?
ReplyDeleteExactly which bit of sthn nsw are we in?
Bermagui, South Coast NSW.
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