Today....

(Warning-photo heavy)

Today on our travels we found a beautiful spot to sit and have lunch. We just happened to spot Lake Mulwala as we were driving and our tummies were rumbling.

It really intrigued us with all the dead trees sticking up throughout the lake - 

We later found out that Lake Mulwala is a man-made lake, formed by the damming of the Murray River in 1939. Apparently it's a very popular place to holiday, etc. Amazing that these now dead) gum trees are still there after such a long time.

Sue eating her lunch and talking to a lonely seagull-

Also loving Lake Mulwala were hundreds of Corella - very busy and noisy. I imagine they are a nuisance to those living there but we were intrigued by them - 

When we stopped here, we were on our way to visit some more Silo Art....but first of all I will share the ones we visited previously.

Dunedoo was our first silo stop after leaving Scrub Stitching-

There wasn't much information here but presumably there was a famous jockey, or breeder from the town!

Thank you to Chooky who has filled in the gaps for me. The above silo celebrates Hugh Bowman, the jockey who won the Melbourne Cup in 2002. He was from Dunedoo.

The other side -

There was also an area with some sculptures of native birds - here we have the Kookaburra-

Merriwa was next, the sheep with the red legs confused us until we read that a Festival of the Fleeces is held annually, where the sheep run down the main street wearing red socks (!).

We stayed the night at Merrima. On Monday we visited Portland. Initially I thought these were a little dull but they were actually very good.

A woman also!

 How they can achieve so much detail is beyond me-

Grenfell was next-

A photo of a photo showing some of the painting process-

And a 'standing back' shot, showing the sheer scale of the silos-

We stayed last night at Harden; the silos were at neighbouring Murrumburrah.

A neighbour has planted trees for privacy which made them tricky to see-

Around the back was another painting, high up-

 And a sculpture commemorating Bill the Bastard -  a very high spirited horse who nonetheless carted 5 injured soldiers to safety under heavy Turkish fire in 1916-

 And onto today. We stopped at Picola to see the flora and fauna you may see at the nearby Barmah Forest-

I loved the flowering gum flowers there at the bottom.

Attempts at a selfie again!!!

Tonight we are stopping at Nathalia and tomorrow we make our way down to Melbourne and the airport (sob). We have a few stops planned along the way so it's not all over just yet!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn