This will be a few pictures from the drive back to Mallacoota which I have only just got around to uploading. We set off around 10:00. The first image was near the Royalla Solar Power site. Without the cement truck to suggest otherwise this could be an art installation.
I think this is the Tinderry Range behind Michelago. It is finally beginning to look vegetated after a massive bushfire in December 2009. I think the bare rock on the RHS skyline was always there.
Not a concrete pumper, but art. It's at Numeralla and I think it is actually owned by the National Gallery of Australia.
Frances commented that one can tell where houses are because there are often deciduous trees around them. Another hint is pestilential berry laden shrubs. The photo was taken at 100kph (from the passenger seat) and I can't be sure if it is Cotoneaster or Hawthorn. Both pests with the fruit eaten, and thus the seeds spread, by parrots, cockies and currawongs.
This is Pyrocanthus. Ibid.
While this shows the bare hillsides heading out of Cooma the reason for it is the small shed. When we went to our weekender at Kalaru in the 1990s this site was a hive of weekend activity. We couldn't work out what all these blokes were building out there. We called them druids, although the vegetation looks a little mistletoe-challenged. Somehow we found out it was a gun club and the mound of dirt was a backstop to their pistol range. We have driven past many times in the last 10 years and seen no activity but there are listings on Facebook showing it still an active facility.
One of my favourite signs. Not sure how well the underlying joke is understood by non-Australians (and I am surprised that the NSW Greens haven't objected to such vilification of onanists being against minority rights).
We called in a Black Lake and were able to write down 2 Musk Ducks for Bird a Day. Looking at Google Earth they were about 400m away!
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