Going Down the Coast In New South Wales

Canberra is a couple hours inland from the beach. Head East, cross the Great Dividing Range and you end up around Batemans Bay, gateway to all sorts of small towns along the Tasman Sea.

Good parking spot, good view. The waterside view in Narooma.

Fresh air makes one hungry. Alas, the local Chinese restaurant is closed. Score, fresh fish & chips and shrimp.

Mighty mural in Batemans Bay of heroic local Aboriginal folks.

Funky roadside attraction, pink plane at a gas station. Shady beach restoration at Malua Bay.

Naps are the best! Narooma has lots of lazy seals on its rocky jetty.

Cool Collector

Collector is a tiny hamlet just a little north of Canberra. Not much going on in that rural area, save for an unusual, unique, cool piece of folk art sculpture.

Behold the Dreamer's Gate. Kind of a mix of Watts towers and an HR Giger work. It was done by Tony Phantastes in the 1990s and, of course, left unfinished after a battle with the town council. Bureaucracies have no taste!

Semi abandoned things in open fields seems to be a theme of Collector. Old bus and an old flag.

Small town, small graveyards. And headstones.

Graves get flowers, whether plastic or under glass.

Another field, this time, for sport. Good luck to the mighty Bushrangers!