The Rupanyup Silo Art leg of the Wimmera-Mallee Silo Art Trail is now complete. Russian street artist Julia Volchkova (Julia Woolf Art) has done a great job and the latest art mural on the trail of a young Rupanyup netball and football player looks fantastic! A Work In Progress Here are some photos in the preceding couple of weeks showing…
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Brim Silo Art – The Wimmera’s Artistic Masterpiece!
Brisbane based artist Guido van Helten has given a huge boost to the lifeblood of the tiny north Wimmera farming town of Brim with a population of just 100 people. He has created an amazing, massive and impressive 30 metre x 30 metre mural of 4 local farmers on the towns decommissioned grain silos! This grand mural which depicts 3 local…
Rainbow Lorikeets
The Rainbow Lorikeet is a beautiful brightly multi-coloured native parrot found widely around Australia’s northern and eastern coasts living in treed areas including rainforests and native forests. These intelligent medium-sized parrots live in noisy and very busy flocks and are quite amusing to watch as they go about their daily business. These ones I spotted along the Wimmera River in…
Birds of the Wimmera III
Following on from my previous posts Birds of the Wimmera I & II here are some of the Cormorants and Darters I have seen along the Wimmera River that runs through Horsham, Victoria in Australia. These are some of my favourite birds to watch as they are always looking for fish to eat and are quite spectacular to watch when…
Birds of the Wimmera II
Following on from my previous Birds of the Wimmera post, the diversity of species living on the river and amongst the wetlands right near my old home town of Horsham in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia is impressive. Here are a number of smaller species from Cockatoos to Parrots and Ducks.
Birds of the Wimmera I
Spending time in my old home town of Horsham in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia over this spring/summer has provided a great opportunity to see an amazing array of Australian birds. The diversity of species living on the river and amongst the wetlands right in and around the town is fantastic. Just a few years ago all…
White Lake vs. Pink Lake
Salt Lakes are quite common in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. Normally they consist of white salt such as White Lake near Douglas, but there is also the very unique looking Pink Lake near Dimboola. The pink colour comes from a pigment secreted by microscopic algae. Mother Nature provides stark contrasts sometimes!
Grampians Aboriginal Rock Art
There are five major Aboriginal rock art sites in the Grampians National Park (Gariwerd is the indigenous name for the park) in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. The paintings are found in what were once rock shelters for the local Aboriginal Jardwadjali people and the sites form the majority of rock art sites in south-east Australia. In October 2012…
Wimmera Colours
In Spring the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia is a burst of colour with the bright yellow of the Canola fields.
The Cathedral of the Wimmera – Murtoa’s Big Stick Shed
I was born and have lived on and off over the years in the Wimmera region of the state of Victoria in Australia. The majority of this region is predominately farmland and to be honest there are not many prominent large historic buildings out that way that have survived modern progress. There is one huge…
The Wimmera’s Pink Lake
December 31st, 2010 Pink Lake is located near Dimboola in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. The colour on this day was particularly bright. The pink colour comes from a pigment secreted by microscopic algae. The salt lake makes an amazing and unusual sight.
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