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musings from the everyday, somedays

Various mixtapes

Back in the olden days (the 1980s), my first car didn’t come with a radio or any music-playing capability. My second car, however (purchased in 1982), did. And with the advent of a car that could accept cassette tapes came an innovation - the mixtape.

At the time I hadn’t heard of mixtapes, so when I cobbled together some of my favourite songs of the time onto cassettes, I gave them the name ‘Various’.

Day 13 - The Dish

Day 13 was a travel day - from Forbes to Gulgong via Yeoval and Wellington. The primary stop along the way was to ‘The Dish’, aka CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope Observatory.

Three photos of the dish. The last photo shows some apple trees on the site which were grafts taken from the apple tree in Isaac Newton’s yard.

Day 12 - Lake Forbes

Today’s offerings were all taken around the Lake Forbes area near the centre of the town. If memory serves the lake was used as Forbes’ intermittent drinking water supply but it was turned into a recreational lake and park precinct1.

The lake has a number of pedestrian and vehicular bridges crossing it so you can pick and choose what length of walk to take.

Day 10 - West Wyalong

Day 10 was spent travelling from Hay to Forbes via West Wyalong. We had lunch in West Wyalong then spent a bit of time wandering around a couple of streets that housed some fairly impressive church buildings - Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic. The last couple of photos are of a house and different fence/garden along the way.

Day 9 - Hay Gaol, Dunera Museum, Water Towers, Bridge and River

Day 9 was also spent in and around Hay. We began at the gaol which also served as a girls home during part of its history (with the cells called ‘camps’)! It has now been turned into a museum with various collections of household items from decades past. Then on to the Dunera Museum at the former railway station which tells of the internment camps around Hay during WWII. The men/boys arrived in Australia on the ship Dunera and maintained their culture and education. They formed an orchestra and also created their own currency. After lunch we wandered over to the water towers and walked across the river (and back).

Day 7 - Carathool, Carathool Bridge, Hay

On day 7 we travelled west from Griffith to Hay.

We went on the north side of the Murrumbidgee and had an apple and photo stop in Carathool and the Carathool Historic bridge.

In the afternoon we had a walk along the banks of the Murrumbidgee around Sandy Point.

Carathool Railway

Carathool Historic Bridge

Murrumbidgee River, Hay