Last Tiki tour day

Today we drove from West Wyalong to Tullamarine airport , we had a cuppa and slice at Narrandera,  then carried on. Lunch was at Numurkah 

Petrol stop at Jerilderie 

And then carried on to Tullamarine.

We have had dinner at the hotel we are staying at, they are used to Coeliac people here thank goodness

 Raewyn had gf pasta with gf pasta, zucchini pesto, stracciatella (cheese) and olive crumb!! I had risotto with peas and asparagus. Very nice! 

Guess who was playing near the lifts!! 🤣😅

Blurry but fun to me!!

Home tomorrow.

Happy stitching.

The Tiki tour continues

Yesterday we left home and headed towards Tullamarine and then up the Hume Highway. 

We had a quick stop at a road side place and found a cache and then looked at the memorial there

Originally there were over 2500 gum trees planted along the road here to commemorate those lost in WW2

This was the picnic area and BBQ

Next stop Jerilderie, to follow the Ned Kelly trail

The Ned Kelly outside the bakery made from bread tins

From here we drove on to Narrandera and after checking in at the motel went to do an Adventure Lab at the cemetery

We found all the graves we needed to find and read some interesting facts about people and then had to find the Chinese section way over in a corner by themselves

That made me sad, but I guess that was life back in the 1800's. The Chinese were employed by local squatters to clear land and One Manager observed “…they do work white man could not be got to do…” On just one job a Chinese gang cleared 24,300 hectares of more than 3 million trees.

This tree was grown from a pine cone from the pine at Lone Pine at Gallipoli . 

And then we watched the sun go down. A very happy and pleasurable day.

More touring tomorrow as we head to Gilgandra.