Friends picked me up today and we headed out to see more of the countryside. First stop was at their place, which is in Baranduda, just a little bit south/east of Wodonga.
This is the view from their front yard
More of the view from their property - you can see their house in the bottom left corner
And then finally the view from the back of their property! Pretty spectacular!
I didn’t see it, but it’s a wombat that would have created this hole in the fence and worn down this little path.
And somehow in the middle of all this dry landscape, some gorgeous pink flowers manage to bloom!?
It’s hard to see because of the lighting, but king parrots were flying all around.
Out for our drive now, with our destination being Mitta Mitta, a beautiful little hamlet nestled in the Mitta Valley, at the junction of the Mitta Mitta river and Snowy Creek.
Snowy Creek
Judging from the way the bark is worn smooth, I would say many feet and hands have climbed this tree to get the rope swing out over the river!
Mitta Mitta really is a hamlet. With a population of less than 200, the ‘commercial centre’ is literally at the T-intersection, with the ‘everything’ store (post office, gas station, and everything in between) on one corner and the pub directly in front.
A creative use for an old plow, above the bar in the pub.
The Mitta Mitta valley was settled by early pastoralists in 1835 and Mitta Mitta became a settlement when gold was discovered there in 1852.
After our lunch (in the pub of course) we decided to walk the trail along the Mitta Mitta River.
The Mitta Mitta River
An old hole in the embankment that would have been used for mining.
Again, no sightings of the actual animal, but this is wombat poo. Wombats like to poo on things, logs and rocks, etc.. Usually their poo is cube shaped but this area had some rain last night so that’s not so distinguishable.
We drove through the Mitta Mitta valley on our drive home.
The sign for an old school, Tallandoon North Primary School, still remains, but no signs of the school … it’s long gone.
During WW1 Australia shipped more than 169,000 horses to Egypt for use by the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Forces. From them, over 6,000 were sent to Gallipoli and ‘Sandy’ was one of these horses. Sandy was ridden by a Major General who was shot (and died) in Gallipoli, but he had only one dying wish: that his beloved Sandy be returned home for retirement at war’s end. This happened, and Sandy, originally from Tallangatta, lives on proudly in the little town to this day.
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