A 500 K day trip out with Nick around Canberra
Sunday 5th 9.00 am – 9.00 pm
Canberra Airport to see some bronzes which Nick cast in the Sculpture workshop
Dead Wombat on the Micalago Rd
On to the Tindery road with views to the Brindabella’s and Namagi. Nick reckons that the river that feeds the lake comes from the Tinderys which is where we are headed
View from the top of the Tinderys
We come down the Jerangle road to a lake above Captain’s Flat, and get out to bushwack down to it. It is slightly spooky. Nick tells me that many people have disappeared in Captain’s Flat, which used to be a thriving copper mine. We visit the remnants of the mine and wonder how the people fare drinking this water which must be laced with arsenic and other nasties.
The view from the copper mines to the town
We stop for coffee and cake in the town. The coffee shop has a shrine to the murdered and disappeared. The daughter of the house was one of them.
Shrine to the missing and Murdered
The newly decorated gents toilet
Then on to Carwoola and Nicks house. We let the dog – Sam? out and the cats join us. One of them is the biggest beast I have ever seen. We wander around the land, look at trees, a termite mound and many Kangaroos. Nick has turfed next doors horse out and the land is slowly regenerating.
A kangaroo in Nick’s garden
Then on to Bungendore and Lake George
An artwork on Lake George
Then to Tarago, Lake Nathhurst, Goulburn, The Hume highway, Moss Vale and finally as the sun sets – the magnificent and breath-taking Fitzroy Falls – Wow !!!!! Grand Canyon eat your heart out.
Fitzroy Falls
just before sunset
Finally back via Goulburn and a chinese dinner to Canberra.