Tiki tour day 3

Today was a travelling day from  Echuca to Forbes,  we called at Deniliquin to the Info centre and found an exhibition of modern quilts so had a quick look

Beautiful quilt ,we also found a painted water tower, one we had seen before

Further up the road we saw cattle feeding on the side of the road

Wide open spaces and long straight roads of Australia

We had a stop at Narrandera and saw the world's biggest playable guitar

Interesting sky

Arriving in Forbes late afternoon we went for a walk

Nice to see this old pub being done up

This sculpture was by an intersection in town

This one was in a little park

Dog waiting for his master outside the shops.

We met up with the American girls for dinner but didn't take any photos, very slack of us!!

Another day of Adventure tomorrow. 

Happy stitching. 

Tiki tour day 3

Today started with a visit to Sew Fab in Narrandera, such a beautiful shop and lovely helpful staff

From there we had a look at the painted water tower

Beautiful.

Off up the Newell Highway we went, we had a stop in Parkes and met Elvis

One outside and

One inside 😁

And one with my travel buddy!! 🥰

Our final stop was at Gilgandra where we had a wander and did an Adventure Lab

The Cooee walk started from here back when volunteers were dropping off for WW1, two men started a recruitment walk from Gilgandra to Sydney, on the way they gathered over 200 men.

Lovely old building in the later afternoon sun.

Off for a cuppa now.

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.