Today we are on the land of the Wotjobaluk people.
After a final walk in the Barossa Bushgarden in Nuriootpa, we have arrived in Dimboola, our last stop before home on Sunday.
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Red gums in the Barossa Bushgarden |
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Crossing the Murray River at Murray Bridge
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At Coonalpyn |
Dimboola is perhaps known to many only as the title of the play, by Jack Hibberd, who sadly, died just a few days ago.
Dimboola was also where Sidney Nolan was stationed after being drafted into the army in 1942. According to The Art Gallery of NSW he countered the tedium of army life with a regime of reading and painting when able, resulting in a period of intense artistic questioning and experimentation.
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Dimboola, by Sidney Nolan, 1944 |
As for us, we like Dimboola for its birds and the walks along the Wimmera River, which is how we will be spending tomorrow, our last full day of our Broome or Bust Holiday.
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Corellas |
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Ducks |
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The path along the Wimmera River |
Looks like a beautiful area. Hope Chops can settle down to the sameness of Mentone, after such an array of exotic smells from interstate. Will it arouse his old wanderlust that got him into so much strice? . Not to mention his incarceration.
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