More recent Travel

Today was intended to be a relatively quiet day as we have been rushing here and there for most of the last week (and have a big day planned for Saturday).  The main item was the Yarram Art Trail. Before getting there we swung in to the Alberton Historical Cemetery.  A most interesting site with the graves in 2 areas: one lot - sorted by religion (branch of Christianity that is, no Jews, Moslems, Buddhist or Jedi Knight graves were noticed) - close to the road, the others about 600m away beside the Albert River.  Reflecting on this, and the level of the River relative to the rainfall (none recently) and the tide (mangroves indicate tidal) I am surprised that quite a few of the graves are not flooded on a regular basis. These headstones were in the first section.  Looking at the timing of the deaths of the kids suggests epidemics of some sort in 1872 and 1874.  However it doesn't appear to have been an official epidemic  although they do note, contrary to th...

 The major National Park near Yarram is Tarra-Bulga in the Strzlecki Ranges.  Polly, the phone version of Google Maps GPS system, initially sent us on an interesting route as she decides to avoid small country towns.  In this case Yarram, a transit of which really is not going to add any time.  However, she says "turn left" so I do.  The road is rather narrow and well endowed with vegetation. This was our first encounter with the Tarra River.  It seemed rather trivial so I looked up recent rainfall for Yarram and there has only been 36mm so far this year.  No wonder the ground has been cracked in a few spots. At Tarra Falls a pretty caterpillar was exploring a fern trunk. Here is the top of the fals Lower down: the official steps only go about 1/4 of the way and I was discouraged from following an unofficial goat track. We had a GPS "moment" when we got close to the Park Visitor Centre.  There were 2 roads off to the right and I took the first....