Here is the view you would all have expected knowing we are touring the Great Ocean Road. It well over 30 years since we last drove down this way and the view has lost none of it's charm. This part of the coast of great view after great view.
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
You had really good light on that visit. Love the majesty of that scene.
ReplyDeleteThis was a morning shot. In the afternoon the car park was incredibly full so we went back the next morning when things were less frantic.
ReplyDeleteStunning photo! What a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteMore beautiful than I remember from earlier visits but I was not a photographer then and it was a long time ago.
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