These are a batch of photos from a recent tour to the regional Australian town of Canowindra. Now, there are many towns in Australia that have confusingly spelled names that often sound NOTHING like they sound! Canowindra is a case in point... it is pronounced Ka-nown-dra. For #$@%@$#% sakes, why the hell didn't they name it Canoundra?!?!?... Weirdly enough, there is also traces historically and in local landmarks where it IS spelled Canoundra.
Anyway, it is an historic town that derives its name from the local Aboriginal word for "home". It was an important regional centre during the colonial history of Australia, and has a relatively famous and protected main street. Although, when I was walking down the main street, it was quite clear that there was some significant damage due to the recent years of heavy rains and high water marks.
But anyway, this post is more about the surrounding areas of Canowindra... when we were leaving the town, we took some time to walk out and explore a bit of the river from a small timber footbridge.
Although it hadn't really rained that much in the days previously, you can see that the water was still quite high in the river.
... and moving quite fast under the bridge.
I suspect that this particular bridge was a way of moving small livestock and goods across the water from the outlying homesteads and farms into the main town centre. Further down the river, there is the modern vehicle bridge, that supports a two lane road. But we thought that it would be more scenic to view the river from this smaller footbridge.... plus, we wouldn't have cars whizzing past at 80 kilometres per hour just a few scant metres away!
Hehe... we were definitely loitering a little bit!
These muddy patches are a bit of a common sight in inland NSW at the moment. The past year of heavy rain with very little let up in the downpours, the heavy clay earth of the NSW region gets quite waterlogged and you end up with these muddy patches that don't dry out easily. This is also a big problem in the residential areas (we are battling a bit with it in our garden).... and the waterlogged clay earth expands and contracts quite differently to the dry version, which can cause foundation problems for houses. Plus, the wet waterlogged earth isn't quite a strong for holding trees in place, and when coupled with strong winds, it has made for quite a number of fallen trees!
Next stop on the way out of Canowindra was a little boutique winery that was sponsoring the festival that we had just played at. There was an invitation to come and try some wines (I was driving, so I had to pass...) and to buy a few bottles at a discount!
Honestly, I would be quite happy living up here! On the other hand, it is a hard life on the country... lots of physical work, and I'm not sure that that is really my sort of thing! But... very beautiful!
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people( @ifarmgirl ) sharing the post on Twitter as long as they are registered with @poshtoken. Sign up at https://hiveposh.com.
Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍
Did you know you have your own profile map?
And every post has their own map too!
Want to have your post on the map too?
It is a beautiful place to be..
Very nice place... very quiet as well!
I live in Italy, and Australia is really far away from here. I don't often see photos coming from Australia, it was a pleasure to look at these photos. Thank you for sharing them.
Ah yes... I remember when I was living in Europe how different the greens of nature were!
I would have read the name of the place differently had you not included the phonetic hehe!
Thank you for the tour :) The place looks peaceful and quiet and beautiful too. Would be a cool area to retire and simply be :)
I know right! It is a completely poop pronunciation!
Definitely a nice place to wind down.. very quiet!
Yeah haha :D
A great place indeed!
Wanna do a real tree top walk in Australia? Somewhere a way south of Perth I did a nice one in 2010!
Ah... yes, I will have to do that the next time our family is on that side of Australia! Hope the house hunting is going well!
Yes we bought a Spanish 2nd house. Now the paperwork.
Oooohh... congratulations!
Congratulations @bengy! You received the biggest smile and some love from TravelFeed! Keep up the amazing blog. 😍 Your post was also chosen as top pick of the day and is now featured on the TravelFeed.io front page.
Thanks for using TravelFeed!
@smeralda (TravelFeed team)
PS: You can now search for your travels on-the-go with our Android App. Download it on Google Play