Here is another look at it before we head back to the car. The walk is a very very easy grade and easy underfoot. Unlike walks in the Blue Mountains which are invariably rough and steep.
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
Isn't that glorious?
ReplyDeleteI bigged it up so I could see those mountains in the distance.
Isn't that little tree amazing, growing there in that rocky exposed position?
I like mountains heaths because of the windswept shaped trees like this ... not that this spot was heath ... it just sort of jutted out from the rest of the mountains range.
DeleteWonderful view and wonderful photo. What kind of tree is this? Looks a little bit like some pine variation, but I can't really tell from the photo.
ReplyDeleteMartina, I don't know. I bigged it up like Letty to see if I could see it clearly enough to make some sort of identification. There are native cypress pines in this region but I don't remember them being the forest around here, nor on closer inspection does it look like one. Lots of Australian shrubs have tough thin foliage like this plant to cope with the heat.
DeleteAwesome view! And that tree is amazing, it seems to be desperately fighing for its life. Great shot, Joan!
ReplyDeletegreat view..
ReplyDeleteAnother beautiful view. You're right about Blue Mountains walks though. They can be very hard going.
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