After leaving Port Fairy we headed north east towards Ballarat. Our next evening was spent camped at the Newstead racecourse and recreation ground 17 km south-west of Castlemaine. Its also listed in Wiki Camps and your $10 fee per night gets you showers, toilets, fresh water and a dump point.
Our next days travel continued on through Bendigo and towards the Strathbogie Ranges. We were here to spend the evening with our friends on their property at Strathbogie. A lovely meal including many bottles of red wine saw us eventually head of to bed quite late.
From here we continued through Euroa before joining the Hume Freeway onto Benalla and to our campsite for the next two evenings.
We are spending two days camped at Broken Creek bush camp 16 km north-west of Benalla. Fees are just $7.50 per person and this includes showers, toilets, freshwater and a dump point. This site is listed in Wiki Camps.
Four towns in northeastern Victoria have now painted their silos, to form their own silo art trail.
Tungamah, Devenish St James and Goorambat are all less than 50 kilometres apart.
Our campsite is in close proximity to these four towns so a day trip was the order of the day in photographing these silos.
We were surprised that all these silos were behind fences with no way of getting up close and personal like we could with the silos in the Wimmera.
We started the trail in Tungamah as it was the furthermost town from where we were staying.
Then it was south towards St James where one of the silos was still in the process of being painted.
Our favourite silos were in Devenish, depicting two servicewomen 100 years apart.
Apart from the silos in Goorambat, the local Uniting Church has a mural on its interior wall painted by street artist Adnate who also painted the beautiful silos at Sheep Hills.
We followed up with a lovely lunch in Benalla and photos of some local street art.
Before leaving Victoria there was just one more silo to be photographed. This was in the town of Rochester just south of Echuca.
Such Beautiful artwork !
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