nearby scrub of malice And lea -lice 

 vfia lollowcd hv a climb In ihc sum- 

 mil of Ml. Mjllmt'k'Y. hecausc 

 Charge <»>nis wished ro photograph 



the view invvatds eacb poult Of the 

 eompas I htm litis eminence ihc vole 

 SpOCDttCfl i» 'he pork of Dioopuig 

 Sheoke tCmuartaa wnim) stood out 

 alop 1-lagsi.ill Hill li was a plcastirc 



on return to Carnfl w find thW Alan 



and Win Moriisou had arrived, in 

 their 4-wheel diivc \ chicle .Hid caia 

 miii. lo join lis on our visit to Ihe 

 Unto Desert Some members weni 

 spotlighting tor native mammals in 

 Mie evpciicuced company' ot' Bill 

 Gaskmu. 



Our vi.sit lo Wypcrleld bad come 

 lo on end without an opportunity I for 

 reasons of time and stale of track) 

 ol seeing UlC famous old patn.iicfi 

 River Red (him known as He-al llhe 

 VViinniera aboriginal word for Ihc 

 species in general, as in Ihc name 

 Waiiai.kiiahe.,1. which comes fiom 

 -vvarruk". plain: "nil", of; "heal", 

 red sum. the Murray River tribes 

 knew Eiualypliis CtMWMjiMwft a& 



yarrow'' 01 "yurra". as recorded in 

 Major Mitchell's journal! . A few 

 members however managed lo see it, 

 and were duly impressed The other 

 disappointment was not feeing a mal- 

 ice fowl: a camper not in our pailv 

 was fortunate in seeing one near ihc 



track we hud waJkcd along. 



H <-/iiu:\ila\. 2 Sc/flembrr 



I he bUS slopped on the way onl of 

 the paik to enable us lo look at a 

 fuwnv Frogmouth on ns nest in a 

 red gum. perfectly camouflaged as 

 usual Twice were kangaroos seen m 

 pairs, and many ringnecks were 

 about; a pair of smaller parrots 

 Hashed by unrecognized. At Rainbow 

 ls the original homestead of the old 

 Hindmarsh Marion (classdied by the 

 National Ttosi f, unfortunately there 

 was no time to have a look at either 



I ake Mbacuiva or I ake I bndm.u jfc 

 hut the level of both were report 

 lo lie low Iheic was a brief slop ,„ 

 .lep.oil (which now has a Pioneers 

 Museum) lor a walk into Sm Robert 

 Mcn/ies Park. Willi its St] ft "thistle" 

 spue ai ihc enhance, lla lonn L; 



I' c Minister having aitended Jcp 



ant Slate School horn \H'») [ 0 IVOr, 

 Ihc name Jcparil means facCOTdtiu 

 to AJdo Massoln\ "Ahotmiuul 

 Jlutttfji of Sotttlt-fttM Australia") 

 shell parrot', and one wondm 

 whether this is a white man's injev* 

 as ihe coincidence seems ton mi- 

 hkelv. A local tourist hrochuic tfs/q 

 it as home of small birds". Cer- 

 tainly budgerigars, found in ilv 

 legion, utf small hinlv 



On again, ami tuoigc \\ cllitighin 

 stopped the bus to teino\e a reci niK 



killed Galifh frurn Itlfi toad. 10 proteci 

 its mate, which had remained 

 by its side, in danger of being hit 

 by .i ear itself. A stop was made at 

 Cilenlee forestry Reseive. an aiea nl 

 iiigtnal Wimmera sciub. 46? acres 

 on ihe ffgbl side of the road, IOM 

 acres on the left lluec waitles were 

 here i.fiu.iri miniara and A. p\c- 

 ntiiuhtt in flower and A. hnit hyhinnu 

 ai burl), and other plants noticed In- 

 cluded Ptyd&UWftd I"'" St,irk- 

 homi-i motuii'VUii. Oktiria and Km- 



l unch was taken in Nhill's main 

 street gardens, alongside the fine 

 statue by Stanley Hammond of the 

 Clydesdale hor*e. to which the Wim- 

 era owed so much lor its early agii- 

 culrural development. Erected by the 

 Australian Morse Society, H was un- 

 \ ct let by the Minister for Pumao. 

 Industry (Mr .1. Anthony) in l%8. 

 \ lew miles beyond Nbill we passed 

 the memorial to John Shaw Ncilson 

 on the site of (he settler's collage 

 where he wrote many of his Ivrn-j 

 poems. 



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