Another fantastic day today- overcast, cold gusty wind, showers.
The beach didn't appeal, so we visited Norah Head Lighthouse. You wouldn't have guessed from the lack of people that the lighthouse is now on the edge of Central Coast suburbia.
Yes, so is ours at home!Having said that, I suspect there isn't anywhere on earth as flat as the Hay plains. Hay is in the south-west of NSW, about half way between Sydney and Adelaide. It's very dry there, very flat and quite barren.I remember visiting one farmer who told me that the land drops away to the west at a constant rate of "one inch to the mile" for hundreds of miles.Another farm we visited, we were driving around the property and suddenly the owner stopped his car and got out and announced this was the highest point on his land. We looked around blankly and asked how did he know that? The answer: when it floods this little section generally did not get inundated. That was the place he had to gather his sheep to.One time when we were driving to Sydney, our boys suddenly started calling out "Whee!" We couldn't work out why they were doing this until we realised that we had just gone over a barely discernible rise a few feet high!Now that's flat!
Wonderful to see such georgarphy. Our landscape here is so flat.
ReplyDeleteYes, so is ours at home!Having said that, I suspect there isn't anywhere on earth as flat as the Hay plains. Hay is in the south-west of NSW, about half way between Sydney and Adelaide. It's very dry there, very flat and quite barren.I remember visiting one farmer who told me that the land drops away to the west at a constant rate of "one inch to the mile" for hundreds of miles.Another farm we visited, we were driving around the property and suddenly the owner stopped his car and got out and announced this was the highest point on his land. We looked around blankly and asked how did he know that? The answer: when it floods this little section generally did not get inundated. That was the place he had to gather his sheep to.One time when we were driving to Sydney, our boys suddenly started calling out "Whee!" We couldn't work out why they were doing this until we realised that we had just gone over a barely discernible rise a few feet high!Now that's flat!
ReplyDeleteIt is at that! At least we have anthills to provide interesting topography!
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