Willunga Pastoral Scenes

We spent yesterday afternoon, Sunday the 18th May, looking around Willunga and close by where we live. A friend had sent us an e mail to say there was a free, photographic competition being held in South Australia to get people to see what is interesting in their own piece of deck and the only condition was that the photo was taken between midnight and midnight on Sunday.
We thought how interesting to go and look close by home and see what there is to photograph that might be worthwhile. I suggested we start at the Willunga look out up the hill on the left of the Victor Harbour road.

 When we got there, the trees blocked most of the view of the whole basin which is a bit disappointing. So we moved up the hill and then along to Taylors hill road where we found this interesting ruin. You wonder at all the energy which would have gone into the quarrying and carting the stone up this huge hill and then building the cottage. What dreams were shattered there to leave it so sad and broken.....

 It was actually rather a dull and murky sort of a day and the view across from this cottage showed the distant sea and two huge tankers. Perhaps if you click on the photo you may just be able to pick up the two ships on the silver water near the horizon.
The whole basin is now a mix of golden autumn vines, bare paddocks ready to be seeded as soon as we have more rain and buildings half hidden by trees.

We drove up to the underpass of the Victor Harbor road which gives an interesting view of a gumtree near the Ross Roses Nursery. I am pleased to say they seem to be back in business as we picked up some new roses there last week which we have planted out straight away. I think the roses here do much better when planted from pots in the autumn as they have all winter to get themselves acclimatized ready for our hot and dry summers.

The photo of the Victor main road was taken from the overpass on Malpas road. I was a bit disappointed with that one, as it doesn't show up dramatically at all. But looking East towards Taylors Hill road you can see the rows of olive trees someone planted years ago. Again you will have to click on the photo to see the whole effect better. I often wonder how the people get on harvesting the olives as the site is rather steep.

Finally, while waiting for a dramatic sunset, which didn't happen, I took a photo of the Mount Lofty TV towers we can see from our back gate.
The day being so murky was a bit of a drawback as nothing showed up particularly well. No doubt there are ways and means one can cope with this if one knew ones camera capabilities better than I do. I hope to have some tuition in this in the months to come as the instruction book is so scattered in its information and while the writers know what they are talking about, I do not........
Needless to say, I don't think I will send any photos in.....