Well I think my favourite type of landscape has a good backdrop of mountains. I'm pleased to see this rim of blue beside us all the way. And they are pineapples in the foreground.
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 remember when I was a kid seeing fields and fields of pineapples on the drive to the coast - hardly any anymore.
ReplyDeleteYeh, I only saw two or three fields on the trip. There seem to be just as many pineapples in the shop ... I wonder where they are growing.
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