Country Meanderings

Once more in to the breach my friends. But this is the breach of country (sort of) Australia.
Guess where I am?
Can't, well it's Tanunda, or at least close enough that you can see it from where I am. This place is less than an hour and a half’s drive from Adelaide. And I think I passed about 10 wineries on my way here, and this is just the start of the Barossa.
But not drinking wine (like me) is no hassle when the views are as good as this. The trees look as though a fire has gone through, but it hasn't, at least not this year.
There is a quiet peace that I had to feel.

Below was the view from where I contemplated.

I spent a few minutes sitting down and thinking about stuff.

In that time I heard the buzzing of flies (later I heard bees, but strangely could not see them) the warbling of magpies, the caw of crows and even the laugh of a kookaburra.

My bollock filter was very quickly cleansed.

I decided that when I retire, in about 30 odd years or so, I want to buy a hectare block of land and grow vegies and cook pickle and chutney. Just enjoy the out doors in a rural setting. I think this is how I could while away hours, days and years.

I spotted two skips, but not before they spotted me. I caught my first glimpse as they were boinging away. This happened twice more before I decided to get sneaky and go to where I though they might be headed. Low and behold, one of them boinged into my field of vision. It spotted me instantly, and decided to have a gander at me too, before casually boinging away.

I think the boinging is majestic and don't care what the rest of you think.

Well this is beautiful, but can you guess whether, in the middle of the worst drought in records, vine growers irrigate. Beautiful, but not the best for the blue planet.

And can you believe that the last two shots were taken from the same spot. One shows rich fertile soil, the other shown a rocky wilderness where farmers get no income from.

Both beautiful, but give me the rocky wilderness any day.

So now I am back in town slowly filling my bollock filter again. Hopefully I have the large model installed, and can keep the calm my little sojourn gave me.