Around Forbes

 Thursday - today was the day to look around Forbes and to see their ' Somewhere Down the Lachlan Sculpture Trail'. Should be ' You'll be lucky if you find them' trail!! This trail was based on the 'Sculptures by the Sea' on Sydney. I firstly had to visit the Council offices to get a map of where the sculptures would be. Being told that there were some in the local vicinity I headed off trying to study the map which was so small that you needed a super strong magnifying glass! 

I did find these in town. 

 

I then ventured out to find the 'Big Goanna and there he was down a dirt track.  It is a very impressive sculpture and in an interesting setting.

    

Following this discovery I decided that it was time to walk around Forbes lake - not sure if I was going to make it around the whole lake as it was 10 km!!It's not the usual shape that you associate with a lake as you can see but I set off with high hopes! I  actually did make it all the way around although there was a moment when I thought that if I didn't see a bridge or the end of the lake pretty soon there might be a splash as I swam across. Luckily the dirty flooded lake didn't really appeal!

There were some sculptures as I walked around and in one place was information about the Wiradjuri aborigines plus some sculptures dedicated to their customs.

Although the day started cool it soon warmed up but beside the lake was quite sheltered. I was very glad to get back to the car after that walk!

 

  

  

  

  

Today I was hoping to find another sculpture which should have been on the Lochlan Valley Way but either I'm blind or it has been moved because I couldn't find it! The road that I was on actually led to Eugoura so I went back to see some of the murals in the village. On my wandering around the village I stopped in at a pretty grotty looking cafe  but after hearing the owner of the roadside cafe, which I had previously stopped at, F-ing and  blinding at a local with no concern for non locals, I felt that he didn't deserve my patronage! The owner of the cafe was telling me all about the village and each year the mural painters come back to add to another mural to the collection unfortunately they were not able  to do anything this year because of Covid! 

I then thought driving to the local national park would be a good idea - perhaps a little ramble I thought. Unfortunately after all the flooding rain that they had a few days ago meant that there were numerous waterways to cross on the dirt road! After about 6kms of dirt, potholes and water I chickened out. I just didn't want to get stuck out in the wilds with no one around!