A Quick Driveby, Mint Container
I chose this location because it's reminiscent of a story an old bloke told me back in 1982.
I was talking to this chap in Deniliquin one day and he said ' would you be ........ son ?'
I said yes.
You know I met your father back in 1936. I remember him well.
He was a truck driver back then as was I. Back then it was a 12hour drive from Finley to Melbourne. It was 2am on a winter's night and when I met your Dad, his truck had broken down on top of Pretty Sally. He was sitting on the back of his truck, playing a piano trying to keep warm. He was carting it to Melbourne. Ended up with 7 or 8 trucks all parked there, having a sing a long at 2am with the mist all around us.
A Top Bloke.
So I was in the area and thought I'd look up old Sydney road and try to imagine him here playing a piano in the middle of the night.
Gordon Howitt recorded a drag at Pretty Sally Hill on his way to Bendigo in 1853. He wrote 'At this moment appeared two bullock drays loftily laden with wool, in the very act of descending. They were coming on, dragging huge trees behind them by their drag chains, to prevent the ponderous loads rushing precipitously down the declivity, carrying bullock and all before them'
This is a quick drive by. Take in the view and imagine driving this road in the 1930s.
Watch out for snakes in the summer months.
Cheers Dog-gone.
Be sure to visit my orher caches in the Williamstown Area.
Thanks to Riddell for his contribution.
Be sure to check my 2 favourites Bridge Over Troubled Waters and Parrot Joke