The community at Murmungee Victoria is having a community picnic (24 Nov) to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hume & Hovell crossing the Murmungee Basin in 1824. Commencing at the Cairn constructed 100 years ago to mark their route we'll swap tall tales & true about the events of the day in 1824 & the expedition in general.
@@LifeintheBush A strange place to put a monument. I must have passed it when it was The Hume a 100 times (at warp speed) without noticing it perched on top of the cutting. Only recently when poking about on a family history jaunt did I notice it, stopped and investigated.
@@LifeintheBush Not by me. 😀 I'm going to have a sticker mad 'Warning, I brake for monuments". 😀 But that one, mounted high above in a cutting (and no where to stop), really goes unseen. I'm guessing the cutting has been deepened over the years leaving the monument 'high and dry', and unseen. And it has no setting to encourage a stop as well. The one on the Appin Road is similar. I suppose they may have been established when there was less traffic. It's good to see the Appin Road monument was recently cleaned up and mowed. It was looking very overgrown and unloved. I don't know who did the clean up. Maybe the local council. It was getting to the stage I was thinking of stopping off with a whipper snipper.
The community at Murmungee Victoria is having a community picnic (24 Nov) to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hume & Hovell crossing the Murmungee Basin in 1824. Commencing at the Cairn constructed 100 years ago to mark their route we'll swap tall tales & true about the events of the day in 1824 & the expedition in general.
That’s great 👍🏼
3:40 Cullerin Rd. A.K.A. The Old Hume Highway.
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@@LifeintheBush A strange place to put a monument. I must have passed it when it was The Hume a 100 times (at warp speed) without noticing it perched on top of the cutting. Only recently when poking about on a family history jaunt did I notice it, stopped and investigated.
@@graemesydney38 Yes, a lot of the monuments are unnoticed on roadsides ☺
@@LifeintheBush Not by me. 😀 I'm going to have a sticker mad 'Warning, I brake for monuments". 😀
But that one, mounted high above in a cutting (and no where to stop), really goes unseen. I'm guessing the cutting has been deepened over the years leaving the monument 'high and dry', and unseen.
And it has no setting to encourage a stop as well. The one on the Appin Road is similar. I suppose they may have been established when there was less traffic.
It's good to see the Appin Road monument was recently cleaned up and mowed. It was looking very overgrown and unloved. I don't know who did the clean up. Maybe the local council. It was getting to the stage I was thinking of stopping off with a whipper snipper.
@@graemesydney38 😆
Collingwood is a good name , so too is Harper. The Harper name will come up six times over your journey.
👍🏼 not biased at all Mr Harper 😊