Showing posts with label Barraba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barraba. Show all posts

Monday, 2 December 2019

Mural at Barraba, NSW

The Mural below at Barraba NSW was done by Fintan Magee who's art is to admired. There is also another link to Fintan's work here
Andrew often does a Mural Monday, here.

Finan says, "Mural depicts a local water diviner searching for ground water, using a y-shaped twig or rod or two L-shaped ones.  Diviners study the landscape of a farm and walk over aras where they suspect the water may be located, ground minerals and magnetic forces force the sticks to cross or be pushed downwards when water is located.  Despite many studies claiming the technique is pseudo-science.  Diviners continue to be used throughout Australia as way of finding ground water."
Taken from Finan Magee Facebooks page.

After taking the photo we continued up the road toward Warialda, NSW stopping a few klm from the nights stop to have a walk about as one does get a bit stiff sitting for a fair while.
The photos are taken of the rest stop showing how dry the area is.
Even cacti will survive though sometimes, we did however see many of them dying.








Friday, 7 December 2018

North of Barraba NSW

On the way to Warialda we came across a view which was beautiful with a lake and wind farm but there was no feed for the animals.
We saw a farmer carting water to his cattle and sheep - we saw several trucks carting water along the road, at this time we began to think there must be a big problem with no water, it wasn't till we arrived in Queensland that we were told there was a big drought.





Wednesday, 5 December 2018

From Manilla to Barraba NSW

A rest area about half way from Manilla to Barraba NSW.  We stopped here for me to take a photo of such another very dry area.




A town clock at Barraba NSW, a town we passed through taken from the car.