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...

I thought I should offer a warning about the size of this post so that folk on limited download can choose whether to open it. Frances thought that we could manage to ascend The Piccaninny as it was rated as Easy/Moderate.  Mount Sturgeon was also a possibility but a fair bit longer and higher.  Before tackling that we did our morning heartstarter walk extending it a bit to come back along Salt Creek.  Fortunately Frances looked closely at the marked up map from the Visitor Centre and realised the track was on the South side of the Creek (after I had followed an illusory track towards the Northern side)! We came across a sign about an art work and initially couldn't spot it.  Then we did as well looked from the correct position.  Rocks on wire (marked 1 and 2) suspend a wire canoe over the creek.  The work is "Hide" by Trevor Flinn.  It was sponsored by Maria and Allan Myers , owners of the walled garden. "What is beyond along the path?"  Allison ...