Monday 23rd March - Meningie
It was cold last night with a low of 5.2, but a nice sunny day of 23.7. The problem with this is that it generally doesn't reach the maximum temperature until early afternoon. We went for a drive today and did the Coonalpyn Art Trail. This is something that Clive read about in one of the information brochures. Coonalpyn was established in 1909 and is a small rural country town, set among grain crop fields. They have some painted silos there and it's situated to the eat of Meningie and is about 50km away. When we arrived we saw the silos, but they were just blank concrete. There must be others around we thought, so followed the road into town, and sure enough, it was these ones but the artwork is on the other side. The silos are not full colour, so they have a different 'feel' to ones that we have seen in the past. The Coonalpyn Art Trail has six different sites to visit including the Mosaic Mural and the Tunnel Re-vision. This tunnel goes under the railway tracks and contains 36 artworks of which some older ones were restored and twelve new ones added, as part of this project. They've announced that the Queensland borders will be closing too, so now we'll have to make our trip even shorter, in the hope that NSW and Victoria don't close their borders too. We would the presumably have to self-isolate for two weeks in each state as well as two weeks once we reach Queensland. This would then take us another month to reach home.