Silos, Beer & Water
Apr. 3rd, 2022 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanDay 2 of the Silo Art Road Trip & into Victoria... first stop was the little town of Patchewollock, where there were only a handful of buildings, the 2 most notable being the silo - seen here from above
And at ground level
- & the pub, where I just remembered in time that Victorians serve beers in either Pints, or Pots, not the Schooners & Middies of New South Wales. The pub was hosting a large lunch party that took up the entire dining room (not a big room... but then, it's not a big town!!), but we were able to get drinks for dry, dusty throats...
Parked near the silo were a number of 'classic cars' from 60s Mustangs, to old VW bugs, an old Chrysler... & a Mazda 323 (known as a 'Familia' in Japan & other countries. Why we stuck with the boring old numbers in Australia is a mystery). I know that any car is considered 'classic' if it's 30 years old or older, but, really...?
Thirsts refreshed, we headed on to the next silo in Lascelles - a slightly bigger town & the silo was located near buildings & wires, so our drone - now christened 'Spinner' in a 'Blade Runner 2049' homage, stayed in its case inside Laura. While we were getting our cameras out, a large 4WD drove almost right up to the silo, Mum, Dad & several kids piled out & all took turns posing in front of the silo with forced smiles & peace signs, before piling back into their SUV & driving off - the entire hit, smile!! & run taking less than 2 minutes. What they didn't know was that the silo has paintings on both the front AND the back...
Sure, the poor old lady at the back was in the shade & difficult to photograph shooting into the sun, but at least we tried!!
From Lascelles, we detoured from the 'official' silo trail to visit Woomelang, a town which has no silo, but does have several water tanks scattered throughout, which have been painted in a similar fashion. Visiting one of them, I drove into what looked like a pretty innocuous puddle & Laura came to a slithering, undignified halt. How the hell did I manage to get bogged in an otherwise dry & dusty outback town?!?!? Fortunately, Laura is 4WD, so with only a modicum of swearing & a bit of twisting & turning of wheels, we were saved the ignominy of having to be towed out of a puddle of mud... & we now looked like a 'real' off-road vehicle
Late in the day, we arrived in the town of Sealake. Bit of an incongruous name, we thought, given it's in north-western Victoria - a lot closer to Australia's central deserts than any seas... or lakes for that matter. Little did we know
That's as good a cliffhanger as I can manage. More soon...
And at ground level
- & the pub, where I just remembered in time that Victorians serve beers in either Pints, or Pots, not the Schooners & Middies of New South Wales. The pub was hosting a large lunch party that took up the entire dining room (not a big room... but then, it's not a big town!!), but we were able to get drinks for dry, dusty throats...
Parked near the silo were a number of 'classic cars' from 60s Mustangs, to old VW bugs, an old Chrysler... & a Mazda 323 (known as a 'Familia' in Japan & other countries. Why we stuck with the boring old numbers in Australia is a mystery). I know that any car is considered 'classic' if it's 30 years old or older, but, really...?
Thirsts refreshed, we headed on to the next silo in Lascelles - a slightly bigger town & the silo was located near buildings & wires, so our drone - now christened 'Spinner' in a 'Blade Runner 2049' homage, stayed in its case inside Laura. While we were getting our cameras out, a large 4WD drove almost right up to the silo, Mum, Dad & several kids piled out & all took turns posing in front of the silo with forced smiles & peace signs, before piling back into their SUV & driving off - the entire hit, smile!! & run taking less than 2 minutes. What they didn't know was that the silo has paintings on both the front AND the back...
Sure, the poor old lady at the back was in the shade & difficult to photograph shooting into the sun, but at least we tried!!
From Lascelles, we detoured from the 'official' silo trail to visit Woomelang, a town which has no silo, but does have several water tanks scattered throughout, which have been painted in a similar fashion. Visiting one of them, I drove into what looked like a pretty innocuous puddle & Laura came to a slithering, undignified halt. How the hell did I manage to get bogged in an otherwise dry & dusty outback town?!?!? Fortunately, Laura is 4WD, so with only a modicum of swearing & a bit of twisting & turning of wheels, we were saved the ignominy of having to be towed out of a puddle of mud... & we now looked like a 'real' off-road vehicle
Late in the day, we arrived in the town of Sealake. Bit of an incongruous name, we thought, given it's in north-western Victoria - a lot closer to Australia's central deserts than any seas... or lakes for that matter. Little did we know
That's as good a cliffhanger as I can manage. More soon...
