Continuing the trail!

 This morning I headed to Batlow - we'll known for apples! I must admit arriving in the town I felt as if I was the only person left on earth! It was deathly quiet with no people around and the town looking like it had died! There were numerous abandoned buildings but this made me scratch my head as there was a message in the top window which said 'HELP ME'! Weird!!!

I was able to find the couple of sculptures I'd come to see and found a cafe open!

This is a permanent sculpture called the 'Apple peeler ' and relates to fact that this is an apple growing region.

I headed back towards Tumbarumba and called in at Johansen Wines where I  saw the couple of sculptures and of course tried some samples of their wine. Lots of white wine in this area of which I'm not a fan!

 Driving out of town I visited the Pioneer Womens Hut museum. There was a Button but displaying buttons through the ages. Another hut showed different quilts and use of quilting.

There was the usual area of old machinery.

Heading back to town I called in at another vineyard, Courabyra Wines, for the last sculptures.

Hard to see because of the trees but it's like a giant egg whisk!

This one moves  and is from Japan.

This is definately the vineyard to come to for lunch!

 I've had a few encounters with wildlife today. First a young Echidna ambled across the road, then there was a snake - looked large but it was newly flattened - and then a live brown snake a metre in front of me - thankfully I was in the car and had pulled up before a cattle grid when I noticed it slithering along! It shot off like a rocket as I crossed the grid! Back at my accommodation a big red roo was trying to get out of a paddock but a fence was thwarting it and finally a couple of rather frisky lizards joined me for a cuppa!