With prices easily researched on the nearby caves we came to the conclusion we could better spend over $100 on touring Sheffield and Railton just over the hills towards Mt rowland .
The town of Sheffield is celebrating its 25 th anniversary this year which draws me to the fat we were here in 1991 nearly 22 years earlier which even had the tourist info guessing as they didn't believe me when I said I seen only a few here back then (they better get some more training in ).
Murals soon over and the brief tour around the town finished to our satisfaction we gathered some lunch supplies at the ever present yet expensive IGA and proceeded downhill towards Railton (topiary town ) where we gazed at the eclectic collection of topiary gardens and then went for a walk to Sykes sanctuary obviously a pretty smart intellectual who from what. Can make out after the war moved to Melbourne didn't like the way things were heading so then moved to Railton and brought some land him and his family could enjoy in a more idealistic way.
He bequeathed the land the sanctuary now stands on his family house and land to the council of the day to leave as a quite place of solitude and tranquil surrounds forever for the public to enjoy and many universal and elemental tables and interesting equations which far outweigh my intellect but we enjoyed lunch here and a walk all the same .
A quick look at Goliath Park then back up to Sheffield for a geocache then a ice cream and fudge at several gourmet places in town then as we were heading home we found an awesome spot for a quick dip in the Mersey river on the way home in this hot 24 degree day lol
As the pics will tell the rapids and old diving board proved a hit with myself and the squids .
This tired us enough so we headed back to mole creek for tea of roasted vegetable gnocchi .
No comments:
Post a Comment