Towards Canberra

 We took a stroll around the centre of Leeton to start our day.  The built environment of Leeton is interesting as the town was designed by Walter Burly Griffin the planner of Canberra.  Also the centre was built in the 1920s so has a lot of art deco buildings. The first image ia clump of palm trees, of which there are a lot.

The War Memorial is art deco in style.
Probably the best example of the architecture is the Roxy Theatre at the centre of the town.
Here are some other bits and pieces along Pine St.




This is the local newspaper which is still going!
These water storage tanks were designed by WBG.
This is possibly the most impressive building and houses the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission.
Next door is the rather more modest Shire Office with some nice art deco elements.
We went back to the Wetlands and scored an early contender for BAD with 2 Juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeaters in a tree in the car park.  This is the Glossy Ibis Shelter in the NW of the area, and the map shows a loop walk there being possible.  Unfortunately there was a fence across the track as they were grazing the swamp in that area.  Pity they didn't flag that on the map!
Polly offered us three routes back to Canberra.  I was surprised to see that the Northern route was 20 minutes and 30 km shorter.  So that was the winner.
As far as I can tell we have not done the stretch from Leeton to Temora in the past so that was another bonus.
A range of hills along the way.
I have left the attached image as it shows the most shredded tyre I have seen.  The driver must have done a few km on the flat tyre before stopping to change it!
Somewhere soon after Temora we saw what became BAD in the form of an Apostlebird hanging out with a clan of Choughs.  As we got close to Yass an interesting set of clouds appeared.
No excitement



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