Friday, July 27, 2012

New Blog address

Hi everyone

I have run out of room on this blog, can't seem to download anymore photos.

I have started a new blog

http://witchwaeonthemove.blogspot.com

Hope you enjoy the photos & stories on this new blog

Cheers Jan

Monday, April 16, 2012

Pink Cliffs - Heathcote

A short drive from town brought us to the Pink cliffs



This interesting & colourful phenomenon was exposed by early gold mining activities


The McIvor gold rush began in April 1853 & attracted thousands of prospectors.
They swarmed throughout the area & quickly exhausted gold in the shallow conglomerate-free grounds


Sluicing work was carried on until early 1880's & it was in this period that work in the Pink cliffs area revealed these colourful "hills"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Spider web
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Valley of Liquid Amber trees



Just a short drive from town, is these lovely Liquid Amber trees in their full Autumn glory
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Heathcote

Heathcote has a rich gold mining history, grand buildings



Town hall
 
 
 


McIvor Range Reserve & Powder magazine
 

Swinging bridge over McIvor creek
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Camp hill Gaol built in 1861
 
 
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Shepparton



A whistle stop in Shepparton, quick look at Goulburn river & lake & now making our way towards the Great Ocean Road

Our trip up this way was to get the van re-registered in NSW ie getting a pink slip done (much easier in NSW than in Vict as they do a full inspection over pits etc)
 


Bob & Jan's shadow from the bridge


Victoria park lake
 
 
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Shepparton Moooving Art

When we drove into Shepparton, I thought we were back in Margaret River in WA & their Cow Parade.



Moooving Art is a unique & ever changing public art revolution scattered across the Greater Shepparton's parks, gardens, riverbanks & public spaces are an array of colourful, ever changing fibreglass cows that make up the Moooving Art herd
 


Greater Shepparton produces a large percentage of Ausralia's dairy exports, making the bovine a natural choice for this unusual exhibition.


There are more than 90 cows in the Moooving Art herd.  These are just a few we saw driving through town


Scarecrow
 


Strawberries & cream
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