"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring" William Wordsworth
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Heading home
Even though was are still many hundreds of kilometres away there is a sense that we are now homeward bound, so we are moving more quickly, less meandering. This is the road into Tenterfield.
In the morning we went out to see the radio telescope 20 or so kms out of town. On another wayfaring trip we visited the radio telescope at Parkes but this one is an array of dishes on a long track that can act like one big dish.
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...
I love roads like these... Great photo.
ReplyDeleteI know this spot well, many trips as a child to my Nan's at Toowoomba via lovely Tenterfield.
ReplyDeleteI know it well too. Got caught speeding on the stretch 20 years ago :-)
Delete*chukckle* ... still lovely feel to this ... 'moving forward' ... lots of road like this in Victoria ...
ReplyDeleteOn the road again tra la la la...... TOH always drives faster on the way home.
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