We started of a bit late today so didn’t reach Burra until lunchtime. We took the backroads, and saw a lot of unusual things on the way including a paddock with alpacas, camels and a ewe on the road with her lamb. The landscape is glorious with its undulating hills and a green hue to the land. Every bend we turn seems to have the remains of stone buildings, like this one near Camels Hump Rd in Hilltown.
Like I’ve mentioned before the stonework is beautiful!
When we arrived in Burra we found a lot of the town closed for the Anzac Day public holiday. This was a bit disappointing as it meant the town felt a little lifeless. Some of the closed shops looked really interesting! I would have liked to have taken a look. Most annoying was that we didn’t realise that the bakery closed at 3pm today, so when we were most ready for an afternoon tea treat after looking at churches and fossils we found it shut. I didn’t get to rate the Vanilla Slice 
We DID get to look through the Burra Town Hall which proved fascinating. The town has a history going back to the 1840s so there were lots of old photos and equipment to look at. There was a book on display that one of the town pioneers had in their possession that was published in 1611! The best part of the display was that there were two dressing rooms behind the Hall stage where we could dress up in all sorts of “old stuff” and take our own photos. Here are some of the results …
This reminded us a little of when we were at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat a few years ago when we had some photos taken with us all dressed in colonial costumes. This time though, we could play and spend some time having fun in lots of different costumes. This was right up Harry’s alley – we pretended to be in the kitchen making tea, biscuits, lighting fires, pouring afternoon tea and serving cakes. The background has been built on the stage, and includes a kitchen and a parlour. It was heaps of fun!!
We went up and saw the old copper mine before we left. This was just enormous!
Tomorrow we leave Yacka and head for Cuddly Creek, about 25km East of Adelaide. We are basing ourselves there for a week and can drive to explore lots of places.
2 comments:
wonder where the name comes from as I know of another Burra on the other side of the world
I really like the slide show of the Colonial Costumes. You all look like you are having such a lot of fun!
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