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Tuesday, 1 July 2025

ANOTHER CATCHUP - March Holiday 2.

 A few more photos from the start of said holiday, still in the process of exploring the Snowy Valley Sculpture Trail.

After reminiscing around Batlow, we headed toward Tumbarumba, through Bago State Forest and onto Tumut.

This amazing gold shell with legs is on the pavement in Tumbarumba, but not sure
whether there was a plaque for it.

As we wandered about the town I spied this near a park.

Ah..........good old Hume & Hovell, famous explorers.
The Hume Highway was named after one of them and is the main route between Sydney & Melbourne.

A little about them in this plaque.  You may have to click on it to enlarge for reading.

Now to the Bago State Forest, somewhere we know, but long time since we'd been.  There were all sorts up there, but I'll show the one we liked best.
The sculptors name above and DH posing with the sculpture below.
The hand sign is mainly for our Car Club's ongoing competition for the 40th Anniversary year.


Someone had played around with this large stone.
I did think it rather cute.

Next was on to Tumut, another town we know well from living in this area.
I didn't find any sculptures here, so we had lunch at a cafe, then headed back towards Gundagai 
where we were staying.
Back in Gundagai we strolled around town and a few pictures were taken.
I remember these old petrol pumps from my childhood.

We visited the Pen Museum and found it fascinating.
So many pen types from long ago till the present.
I'd never realised there was a museum on pens, but then it is a long time since we wandered
about Gundagai.

Down one of the side streets I noticed this mural and just had to snap it, as I wanted to show one of our car club members who has just moved from his farm (cows of course 😏), into town.

                                                                    Don't you love it?
Two last pictures for today.

Love finding some different signs.
Brumbies and kangaroos.

Oh...............and of course my lonely chimneys.
I have quite a collection of these.

OK, my lot for today, but I've promised myself to get this holiday finished over the next week, as we've had a few good days out amongst all the bad weather & hectic bits'n'bobs happening on the home front and this stupid Windows 11..
Appointments galore with medical, young brother and a few car club moments.
I have been reading all my blogs, but can't comment on my old laptop & still have trouble with this PC at times.
Take care everyone and hugs to all.
Susan.




10 comments:

  1. The place names always make me smile. They sound so alien to me.

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    1. Thanks Cherie, though I love place names in UK too.

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  2. Oh I love that cow mural, so funny. That pen museum should twin with the pencil museum in Keswick, haha.

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    1. I also love the cow mural. Aah........we went to the pencil museum in 1991 & have a photo somewhere of us in front of the very large pencils.

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  3. Lots of lovelies on your adventure.

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  4. Lovely to hear from you. We are in the depth of a crazy ‘heatwave’ at the moment. It’s been 32 degrees. It’s been a shock to the system as we are just back from Wales and it was only 19 over there 🥵🥵🥵

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    1. Thanks Carol & I've been hearing about the warm weather over there from my stepdaughter & other family members. 32degrees is very warm but try 46degrees in the middle of mad bushfires. Wasn't pleasant.

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    2. I can’t begin to imagine. We are so not used to extremes when it comes to weather. We don’t cope well at all. Guess we need to adapt 😀

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  5. Super photos. I like the cows and the seated man sculpture also the little eyes and nose on the stone:)

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