We are on our way again. Once more we have our travels designed to fit with the Australian Champs for Orienteering -this time being held near Armidale NSW and starting this coming Saturday 28th with Middle distance champs.
We have a 4 day road trip ahead of us, starting with a tyre check and pump at the local servo as we drive out of town via the southeastern freeway.
We had a long stretch of roadworks after we turned off towards Pinnaroo and that continued to almost Geranium, restricting us to very slow travel at times.
We decided that we would stop for lunch at Geranium and stopped briefly to look at the site of the old Geranium Bore ( reason for this settlement) before we pulled in beside the old oval to eat the last of our fruit and have a cuppa. The bowling greens looked healthy enough but they’ve planted trees inside the oval fence, giving away the fact that they don’t play footy on this oval any more.
We pulled back on to the main road in time to see a double decker bus go past towing a van behind. A huge awning was fixed to the passenger side. It could comfortably offer space for a family adventure.
Not much later we called a brief halt again to look at the silo art in Lameroo. The Eastern silo has a lovely bit of artwork depicting a farmer on a chilly morning ( my interpretation). It’s the 6th silo painted by a fellow called Sam (Smug) Bates from Glasgow. It’s very realistic artwork.
There are plans to paint the western silo with work reflecting the place of women in agriculture.
We took a brief detour in Pinnaroo to see the wooden sculpture of a golfer which stands on the lawns by the golf club. Pretty impressive.
At Walpeup we took photos of yet another silo (this time a war memorial theme)
before heading on to the memorial hall. Here the library van was in town for the afternoon at the back of the hall so I was luckily able to ask the ladies to let me in to the hall to see the tapestry I had read about . This was explained to me by one of the ladies who helped to make it over a period of 3 years. It is an amazing effort
They also have a banner on display there which was made to welcome home the WWI servicemen and signed by them all. This was found under the stage in the hall some years back.
With predictions of rain tonight we opted to book a motel room and found one available in Balranald. (seems it was pretty much the last free one in town)
We went out for a walk to spot some frogs on their frog trail and to stretch the legs, but with an inaccurate map (possibly some years old) and with light rapidly failing we only found some of those shown on the map.
We strolled back to the motel room and microwaved last night’s leftovers for a quick and easy tea before settling down to watch the news like the old retired people we are.
Tomorrow we head towards Parkes, but I’m guessing we won’t make it that far.
Luvapuzzle 