So much water about and water birds abound.
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...
Is that its name: Polygonum? So off I go to look up the meaning ... "Any of numerous plants of the widely distributed genus Polygonum, characterized by stems with knotlike joints and conspicuous sheathlike stipules".
ReplyDeleteSo is this a Joan-name or an official name? I really do not understand that entire sentence that I copied from the dictionary!
It is the official name and I don't remember seeing any plants of that description there.
DeleteThe bird life must have been amazing. And I've never seen a gum like that before.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell one gum from another ... other than that how they look different. It annoys me that I can't name them.
DeleteOh that first shot is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI want to be there right now - right on the banks of that billabong.
Hey, maybe that's a Coolibah tree?
Yeh maybe ... after all they are down by a billabong.
DeleteGreat bird capture.
ReplyDeleteFantastic capture of the cormorant in the beautiful billabong! Love this post.
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