Distance: 21 km
Today I exhausted the charms of Derby. I had to wait for the park shop to open for me to buy ice but once that was done I set off.
First stop the Visitors’’ Centre where I parked the car and followed the Heritage Walk Guide. It was a typical self guided town walk a mixture of what had been but was gone, a brief town history and an explanation of what still remained. It passed a pleasant hour or so in the cool of the morning.
There were the Boab Trees down the main street.
The propeller and anchor of a ship, SS Colac, that was damaged and sank at the wharf in 1910.
The Derby Museum.
The Old Woolshed and Tramway restoration project.
Finally the Derby Picture Gardens a once typical bush open air cinema, alas only the screen remains.
By now I was a bit peckish so I called in at the Jila Gallery Cafe for coffee and cheesecake.
Finally back at my starting point I decided to revisit the wharf because I had missed the Centenary Mosaic when I visited yesterday.
The tide was out so the tidal mud flats were visible.
I drove to Derby’s Old Gaol next to the Police Station. What an awful place it must have been, just a cage with a tin roof and rings in the floor for attaching chains, No toilets. Terrible!
The original Police Station is long gone having been eaten by termites but even termites didn’t like the steel cage.
Finally I was out walking looking for lunch when I came across this hollow Boab tree which was just part of the streetscape. From one side it looked a healthy solid Boab from the other it was a different matter.
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