It was a good day - with the start of our tour of the North-East Victorian Silo Art Trail, starting from Benalla. The four installations we saw were within 30km of Benalla - and they are amazing! I had seen photos of them, so I knew what to expect (although I was still blown away) while Sooz had no idea what to expect. I wish I could have seen the look on her face as we drove in to the first town and she saw the Kestrel painted on the side of the building in front of us. Wow! After we'd taken photos of the silos, I drove back to take a photo of the kestrel, and the gentleman wheeling his rubbish bin out to the kerb reminded me to look in on the Church at the end of town. I had forgotten the Sophia mural was there and I was so pleased he reminded me!
The next silos, at Devenish, St James and Tungamah were astounding. The detail and effort that goes into each is amazing. We now have to find out who funds Silo Art. I think I read somewhere that GrainCorp provides the silos free of charge as a "canvas" but I am going to have to check on this.
Some of the roads we travelled today were definitely "less travelled" with some being "two-on two-off". Luckily we didn't run into a lot of traffic along the way - except for the bad black car which we tailed for a while because we couldn't overtake safely - and we so much wanted to - as they came to a bend in the road, their brakes would come on - and sometimes, for no reason at all, their brakes would come on as well. When there was enough room to overtake (it is not my most favourite thing to do) they would either speed up or ride the centre of the road so you couldn't see who was coming. We finally lost them when we had to stop to dispose of our fruit at a roadside bin. We had talked with our friends who do a fair amount of road travel about fruit quarantines but I forgot to ask where they were ... I had assumed it would be at borders - but apparently not. It was a wrench to throw away our beautiful bananas and oranges - but at least we were able to gobble some down before we despatched them.
Rain kept us company for most of the day - but we had heavy downpours for only a couple of minutes here and there. We couldn't believe how quickly the rain was replaced by clear blue skies - or how quickly the rain came back!
We arrived at Sea Lake - our stop for the night - mid-afternoon and I have to admit it is the smallest motel room we have ever been in. There was room for the bed - and it seemed like the en suite was in there with us. But it was just for the night so it was okay. The motel rooms are spread around a central area where there are BBQ and cooking facilities, so we're thinking it's a good choice for work folk in the area.
Dinner was at the local hotel - and we managed to see a very orange sunset on the way there. It may be the only venue open for dinner during the week - but the meals were good - lamb cutlets for Sooz, steak for me.
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