Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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Landscapes and skyscapes

While we were away over the geocaching weekend we got to see some interesting sights.

A few km south of Wagga is “The Rock”, rising out of the landscape, with the train line running along the plain below. We passed its striking profile as we headed to and from Wagga. I must get back there some day and climb it.

On our return journey we detoured via Castlemaine, so that my brother and nephew could visit an interesting location where I have a cache hidden. There are lots of mining ruins scattered throughout the brooding bush landscape, and although this old chimney is about 6m tall you can almost walk past it without noticing that it is there. The crumpled gullies—with their mullock heaps, ditches, and vertical shafts scattered at random and often unfenced—have a gently haunted feel to them, as if a gold miner from the past might step out from behind a gum tree and return to his diggings.

In Bendigo, the instructions for a cache that started in the middle of town ended up taking us to the top of a hill in the bush just out of town. We arrived at around sunset, and we were treated to spectacular skies as the sun—following its usual routine here described using the usual cliche—sank slowly in the west.

The following day, getting closer to Melbourne, another cache located on the side of Mt Macedon provided us with fantastic views out across the western plains. There were roiling clouds of an incoming front filling the sky with watercolour-moist greyness, and it was very dramatic.

I love the great variety of the Australian outdoors.

4 comments to Landscapes and skyscapes

  • Linda F

    I wondered what you were up to – was missing your blog posts. Lovely photos as usual. I haven’t done anything nearly as interesting in my Easter week off work but Ali & I had a lovely time together. Back to the saltmines on Monday!

  • Looking from over the pond

    The “Rock”, from Wagga rising out of the landscape,would be spectacular to climb one day,looks inviting and the view would be fantastic

  • […] One of my favourite spots is the old stone chimney that was shown to me on my first visit here five years ago. You can walk within 50m of it and not know that it is there unless you are really paying attention. This time the little valley nearby was verdant green, and there was actually a sizeable pond of water in the hollow behind the breached dam wall that the miners built 150 or so years ago. Contrast the chimney on the weekend with this photo from April. […]

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